SAMUEL FOWLER (1848-1911) (Last Updated: September 24, 2016)
Samuel FOWLER, born March 18, 1848 in England, son of Jane PRUDHAM and John FOWLER (1812-1900).
Donn Fowler: My great grandfather, Samuel FOWLER, was born at Goosehill, near Wakefield, Yorkshire. Samuel’s father, John FOWLER, was a successful “Contractor of Publick (sic) Works” in Yorkshire, UK and was invited in 1850 to come to Cobourg to the first ever non-colonial Province of Canada to complete the unfinished C&PR Railway across Rice Lake to Hiawatha First Nation in Otonabee Township to Peterborough. Jane (PRUDHAM) FOWLER managed their 400 acre dairy farm two miles east of Cobourg, until disaster struck the Family because of the FOWLER home mortgaging to financing the Millbrook Trunk line off the Port Hope (PHL&B) line to Peterborough, thanks to Mayor Cox’s Peterborough interest in the Grand Truck Railway’s Montreal to Toronto Line, and a possible trunk line off it at Belleville to Peterborough. Later Fowler’s O&QR charter had to be sold to the Canadian Pacific Railway. The family moved to Headingly Manitoba and died and are buried there.
Samuel and Margaret SCOLLIE
Samuel’s wife-to-be was Margaret Charlotte Corrigal SCOLLIE, born June 1, 1850 in Otonabee Township, Peterborough City, Ontario, daughter of Mary CORRIGAL and Robert SCOLLIE (1709-1888) from the Orkneys of Scotland.
Donn: Samuel and “Maggie” originally married in Benton, Minnesota in 1862, when both were very young, indeed. They remarried again in 1872 at Petersborough.
Fenian Raids
In later life, Samuel was a Canadian Veteran opposing the Fenian incursion from the United States, and he was awarded the Canadian Medal for that endeavor.
Wikipedia: Between 1866 and 1871, the Fenian raids of the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish Republican organization who were based in the United States, on British army forts, customs posts and other targets in Canada, were fought to bring pressure on Britain to withdraw from Ireland. There were five Fenian raids of note and all of them ended in failure.
Donn: Later, Samuel FOWLER became county attorney of Henderson County, Minnesota, USA, until returning to Brockville and Kingston as a political journalist and editor. Fowler and his wife Margaret Charlotte CORRIGAL SCOLLIE, which is an Orcadian and Hudson's Bay Company source name, had their first child born in Carver village, Minnesota, and that was my grandfather, Alfred H. FOWLER. Herb, known as "the Boss," was a career soldier in Canada from the age of eighteen, and saw action in South Africa's Boer War, and again in the First World War.
Second Marriage to Margaret Charlotte SCOLLIE
Donn: Samuel and “Maggie” married again in 1872 at Petersborough. On Dec 18, 1872 Samuel FOWLER (age 24), Yeoman of Cavan (SW of Peterborough), married Margaret C SCOLLIE (age 22) in Peterborough. This from his marriage record which indicates that Sam was born in England, son of Jane and John FOWLER. It shows that Margaret of Otonabee was born in Canada; parents as Robert and Mary (CORRIGAL) SCOLLIE. The marriage was performed by JWR BECK of the Church of England.
Voyageur: Samuel FOWLER's own wife, was my (Don’s) great grandmother, Margaret Charlotte CORRIGAL(SCOLLIE) FOWLER (b.1850-d.1936), and was a sister of the above George Jacob SCOLLIE, so two FOWLERs, namely, Anne and Samuel, married two SCOLLIE's, namely, George Jacob and Margaret Charlotte CORRIGAL SCOLLIE, in 1864 and 1862 respectively, but Samuel and “Maggie” remarried again in 1872 at Peterborough, having originally been married in Benton, Minnesota in 1862, when both were very young, indeed.
Census of 1891 in Athens Village (NE of Kingston; west of Brockville): Samuel FOWLER, Attorney at Law (DA), age 43; wife Margaret C, Music Teacher, age 40. Children: Alfred H (age 17), Mabel G (16), Mary J (14), Margaret E (12), Helen C (10) and Arthur R (age 4). ** All except Arthur born in USA.
Samuel and Margaret (nee Scollie) Fowler
In 1894 eldest son Alfred married Mary Ann Teresa LEEMAN in Kingston (ON), daughter of Catherine MURPHY and John Joseph LEEMAN (1844-1935).
In 1900 daughter Mary Josephine married William George KENDRICK in Leeds, son of Maria EARL and John KENDERICK (1827-1884).
Census of 1901 in Brockville, ON: Samuel FOWLER, age 50; wife Margaret C, age 47. Children: Margaret E (age 22) and Arthur R (age 14).
In 1907 daughter Kate married Frederick Ed WENMAN in Leeds, ON, son of Amelia BUCKLAN and William WENMAN. Also n 1907 daughter Margaret married Stanley Crawford DIXON in Leeds County, son of Elizabeth McCULLOUGH and William DIXON.
In 1909 youngest son Arthur married Florence Margaret PEPPER in Leeds, daughter of Margaret Alberta RATHWELL and William Edward PEPPER (1862-1914).
On Aug 20, 1911 Samuel FOWLER died in Frontenac, Kingston, Ontario.
Census 1911: Widow Margaret, age 55, in Otonabee household of her brother, George SCOLLIE.
Census of 1921: Widow Margaret FOWLER, age 70, in the household of her brother, Robert SCOLLIE (b-1851) in Otonabee, Ontario.
On June 21, 1936 Margaret (nee SCOLLIE) FOWLER died in Lansdowne, Leeds County, Ontario. ** Lansdowne is located northeast of Kingston.
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