First Generation Descendants of Peter Fidler Colette Fidler COLETTE "POLLY" FIDLER (1817-1842) Colette “Polly” FIDLER was born March 5, 1817 at Halkett’s House (north Winnipeg), a daughter of Mary MACKEGONNE and Peter FIDLER of Bolsover. Polly was only five years old when her father died at Fort Dauphin in 1822; nine years old when her mother died in 1826. Colette was only 16 years old when she married 1833 at St John’s Anglican Church to George IRVINE GEORGE IRVINE (1805-1870) George IRVINE was born around 1805 in Sandwick, Orkney. He began working for the Hudson’s Bay Company 1824. He was a Labourer (and a tailor) at York Factory until 1930. In 1830 he was transferred to Red River where he was as a Labourer at an Experimental Farm. A freeman, he married Mar 7, 1833 at St John’s to Collette “Polly” FIDLER. Their first child (Mathilda) was born June 10, 1834 in St James (Winnipeg). By 1840 they had 3 more children (Eleanora, Marie and Martha). Colette died in 1842. On Feb 13, 1851 George re-married to Jane COCKRAN, a Treaty Indian from Oxford House, MB. In 1854 daughter Mathilda had a child (Harriet COOK) by William COOK. In 1862 daughter Maria married Alexander McDOUGALL in St Boniface. George died in 1870. Jane died Jan 27, 1890. Children of George IRVINE & Colette FIDLER:
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