Hi, Sharon. My name is Barry Durie. You and I are third cousins. My great grandfather was William Charles Fidler, brother to Emilia Fidler. William Charles' only son was Peter Jasper Fidler, my grandfather. Jasper had three daughters, Marguerite Joan, Evelyn Mary, and my mother, Renee Madeleine. My ...

Hello, Kelly: My name is Barry Durie. I posted a reply to this Thomas Fidler baptism a few years ago. I have always said that Peter Fidler never took his oldest son Thomas back to the Orkneys to be baptized. Peter only returned to England (alone) once in his life, around 1812, to build his mother a ...

Going by my information, there has been a mistake made. Sarah Ann Swain is not the daughter of Thomas Swain and Ellen Bremner. She is the daughter of John Swain and Elizabeth Lillie. Thomas Swain and Ellen Bremner's daughter was Sarah Elizabeth Swain, who married Miles Alexander Foulds. Hope this ...

Hi, Gary........Nice to see a forum about old Peter up and running. For now, just one question. Where did your information come from regarding Thomas Fidler returning to Europe with his father (Peter) in 1808, to be baptized in the Orkneys. After years of research, the only return trip I could find ...