Joe Connors:

Joe was born February 21, 1895, in Merasheen and at a very early age, started fishing in a small punt (without engine) with his father, Jack Connors. At thirteen years of age; he started fishing with Ab Best as a share man. At that time, they were using trap skiffs that had to be rowed to the fishing ground. After marrying Lillian Best, he bought his own traps with which he continued to fish in Merasheen. Joe was one of a couple of Merasheen people who went to the Labrador coast to work in the whale factory. It was from Jack Connor’s family, of which Joe was a member, that Connor's Height got its name.

Rodger The Miller

(Another one of Billy's songs)

Rodger the miller came courting out late,
A farmer’s young daughter called beautiful Kate.
She had for her fortune jewels and rings,
She had for her fortune many tine things;
She had for her fortune a great deal of ground,
She had for her fortune, she had for her fortune live hundred pound.

When the will it was read and all passed and gone,
It was a great fortune this five hundred pound;
And although your daughter is charming and lair.
I won't have your daughter without the grey mare;
I won't have your daughter l solemnly swear,
I won’t have your daughter, l won't have your daughter without the grey mare.

The grey mare was vanished right out of his sight,
And also young Katie, his joy and delight;
Young Rodger the miller was thrown out of doors;
And ordered to never go there anymore;
Young Rodger he tore on his bright yellow hair,
And wished he had never, he wished he had never spoke of the grey mare

When the will it was read and all passed and gone,
Sure Rodger and Katie they both met upon,
Said Rodger to Katie "0h do you know me?
“l think l have seen you before sir" said she,
“A man of your courtship with bright yellow hair,
Who once came a courting, who once came a courting my father’s grey mare

“It was not the grey mare a courting l came,
Was the farmer's young daughter called Katie by name;
Not thinking the old man he would dispute,
But give me his daughter and the grey mare both;
Not thinking I‘d lose such a wonderful son,
It’s now l am sorry, It's now l am sorry for what I have done"

“You're sorry" said Kate. “but I value I‘m not,
For there's lots of young men in this town to be got;
If you got the grey mare you would have had me.
But now you have neither the grey mare nor me;
The price of that grey mare was so very great,"
So fare you well Rodger, so fare you well Rodger go mourn for your Kate