Life Events
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| Baptism | Edward Fidlar was baptized on 20 Mar 1794 in Stromness, Orkney. His father was a carpenter.1 |
| Marriage | He married Nancy Helen Rogge, daughter of (-?-) Rogge, in Canada.2
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| Anecdote | In the 1820s and 1830s, settlers from the British Isles began to arrive in the Stirling area. Among the earliest was Robert Parker, who came from Ayr, near Stirling, Scotland, in 1821. Parker came out to look after his family's interest in the Marmora Mines but later purchased land in Rawdon Township, constructed a mill at Wellman's Corners, entered into the timber export trade, and operated "Parker's Tavern" at Stirling. Along with Edward Fidlar, the owner of the Stirling mills after 1831, Parker helped to shape the growth and development of Stirling in its earlier days. 3 |
| Note. | Catharine Cecilia, infant daughter of Edw Fidlar, age 7 months died in Rawdon on 29 Dec 1834.4 |
| Anecdote | Edward Fidlar, 'an enterprising Orkney man' who opened a flourishing mill in Rawdon Township northwest of Belleville, was another good friend (LC, 67). While he would later be first warden of Hastings County (1850) and a founder of Belleville's St Andrew's Church, in 1839 he was serving as captain of the 2d Regiment of Hastings under the command of Major Thomas Parker and, at a higher level, Lieutenant Colonel De Rottenburg. His business energies were concentrated upon the village of Rawdon, later to be known as Stirling. His comings and goings occasionally provided Moodie with a welcome means of transportation. 5 |
| Death | Edward died on 14 Nov 1860 in Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario. The next year's census noted that he had paralysis and was 66 years of age.6,7 |
| 1861 Census | Edward and Nancy Fidlar were listed on the 1861 Census of Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario. Edward was born in Scotland and died of paralysis in 1860, the year prior to the census, at age 66. Nancy was 54, born in Canada West, and was a widow. The family's religion was Church of Scotland and they lived in a 1 1/2 story frame house. Children at home included Janet (31), Wm A (28), Jane (22), Edward (17), Robert (14), Charles (12), and Matilda (9). Daughter Nancy (19) died in 1860 of consumption. The youngest children, Charles and Matilda, attended school as did the only non-family member of the household, Mary Stevens (15).6 |
