First Generation Descendants of Peter Fidler Clement Fidler CLEMENT FIDLER (1814-1870) Clement FIDLER was born Nov 24, 1814 at Brandon House. He was eight years old when his father Peter FIDLER (HBC surveyor, explorer and fur trader from Bolsover, England) died 1822 at Ft Dauphin. Clement was 12 years old when his mother Mary (a Cree woman) died 1826 in Red River. In the 1831 Red River Census Clement (age 17) and his younger brother (Peter) were recorded living with their brother Andrew in St James. Andrew was married to Ann HALLETT by then and had a 3 year old daughter (Caroline). Clem was 20 yrs old when he married Feb 6, 1834 at St Johns (Wpg) to Charlotte SLATER, halfbreed daughter of an Indian named Mary and James SLATER (177-1856) from Scotland.. Daughter Mary was born 1835. Daughter Mary married 1861 in St Boniface to John SAYER Clem FIDLER died in 1870 in SFX. He would have been about 56 yrs old Around 1874 daughter Elizabeth married Antoine RICHARD In 1875 Scrip was claimed by Charlotte FIDLER, of Baie St Paul, as the widow of Clement FIDLER In 1877 daughter Mary claimed Scrip for the heirs of their deceased father (Clement) viz: 1) Mary (nee FIDLER) SAYER, 2) Betsy Elizabeth, 3) John, 4) George Andrew, 5) Frederick and 6) James Albert. (This Scrip makes no mention at all of Charlotte, their mother or of their sister Jane Sophia?) Daughter Jane married Jun 11, 1878 to William TAYLOR Son John marrieda woman named Christiana at some time before Census 1881, when they were recorded in Assiniboia. Census 1881 records a Widow Charlotte LOUIS (age 61) living with son George in Baie St Paul, MB. Children of Clement FIDLER & Charlotte SLATER:
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