Marshall Keene Horncastle was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, 16 April 1890,
the son of Edwin Spencer Horncastle and Amanda B. McLean.
His father, Edwin, was a clerk, lived and married in Saint John, and sometime when Marshall was
still in his younger years, he moved to Hatfield's Point, Kings County.
We have to feel the Horncastle family were 'well-to-do' as the house they lived in was big and beautiful
with many rooms, velvet drapes on the windows and a huge Grand Piano in the parlour.
There were lush carpets on the floors and all the luxuries that could be had during that time.
Marshall received a good education and was doted on by his mother. Eventually he fell in love and
was often seen riding about the point in a horse and carriage, his beloved by his side.
But for his mother, Marshall would have married this lady, but his mother's objections were so great,
(or so powerful), Marshall walked away from a married life and opted to live at home with his parents.
In 1932, Edwin Horncastle died leaving Amanda with no one to look after her but her son.
Marshall would be 41 years at this time. He stayed by his mother and worked the farm and she eventually
passed on in 1943. Marshall would then be 52 years. He stayed on and worked the farm alone.
It was said he was rich, his parents leaving him all their wealth when they died.
When Marshall became an old man, he closed off all the rooms in the house, leaving them just
as they were when his mother died, her bed still turned down, her dress hanging on the hook in her bedroom,
her teacup still on the table, his fathers receipts still in a box in the pantry.
He lived as a recluse in the kitchen seeing only close friends. No other family seemed to exist.
In 1964 Marshall died at the age of 73, an old and lonely man. The home he cherished was ramsacked,
everyone looking for the wealth they beleived he had hidden there. Eventually, it was burned to the ground,
his wealth never found.
His body rests in Bayview Cemetery, Hatfield's Point, Kings County, New Brunswick.