Husband Royal Wilkerson HERMON
Born: 4 Mar 1830
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Died: 1907
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Father: William HERMON (1802-1891) 8,129
Mother: Sarah ROBLIN (1809-1888) 8,129
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Other Spouse: Anna Louise BOLTON (Abt 1830-1867) - 11 May 1861 - Perth County, ON, Canada
Other Spouse: Mary DOAN (1842-1920) - 1874
Wife Olive HAWKINS-JEFF
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Husband David George ROBLIN 5,8,129,130
Born: 1839
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Father: George ROBLIN (1806-1878) 8,129,130
Mother: Sarah BRYANT (1807-1894) 8,129,130
Marriage: 1871 149
Other Spouse: Amanda Victoria HAWLEY (1837- ) 8,52,129,130 - 1857 149
Wife Amanda HAWLEY 149
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General Notes: Husband - David George ROBLIN
Husband David George ROBLIN 5,8,129,130
Born: 1839
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Father: George ROBLIN (1806-1878) 8,129,130
Mother: Sarah BRYANT (1807-1894) 8,129,130
Marriage: 1857 149
Other Spouse: Amanda HAWLEY ( - ) 149 - 1871 149
Wife Amanda Victoria HAWLEY 8,52,129,130
Born: 1837 - Ontario, Canada
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Father: Sheldon HAWLEY ( - ) 130
Mother: Nancy JOHNS (1803- ) 52,130
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1 M Robert Moris ROBLIN 5,8,130
Born: 20 Mar 1862
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Died: Abt 1877 - Trenton, , Ontario, Canada 8
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2 M John Charles ROBLIN 5,8,52,130
Born: 1866 - Ontario, Canada
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Spouse: Margaret STEWART (1867-1938) 8,130
3 M David G ROBLIN 52
Born: 1869 - Ontario, Canada
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4 F Susan A P ROBLIN 52,130
Born: 1874 - Ontario, Canada
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5 F Edna ROBLIN 8,130
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Spouse: Philip Ingram PRICE (1867- ) 8,50
Marr: 26 Jun 1895 259
6 F Amanda ROBLIN 8,130
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7 F Mercia Fanny ROBLIN 5,130
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General Notes: Husband - David George ROBLIN
Or died 1902
Death Notes: Child - Robert Moris ROBLIN
By at Train
General Notes: Child - John Charles ROBLIN
John C. Roblin, son of David, and great-grandson of Owen, was born in 1865, and attended the public schools in Trenton. He spent two or three years in Kansas, and for many years represented on the road the Pennsylvania Soap Company, manufacturers of the Miller's soap of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He is still connected with this concern, but carries on business upon his own account at Niagara Falls, N.Y. He married Margaret Stewart and their home at present is in Toronto. Mrs. Roblin was born within seven miles of Edinburgh Scotland. They had one child, Arthur Edward, who is deceased. 8
General Notes: Child - David G ROBLIN
Possible marriage to Netty Thrasher
Possible son Percey Earle Roblin b. 14 Dec 1882 in Hastings
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Died as an Infant 8
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died as an infant 5
Husband George F HAWLEY 52
Born: 1841 - Ontario, Canada
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Father: Sheldon HAWLEY ( - ) 130
Mother: Nancy JOHNS (1803- ) 52,130
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Husband Theodore John ROBLIN 50,63
Born: 3 May 1908 - Ameliasburgh, Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada 63
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Father: George Raymond ROBLIN (1886-1924) 5,79,129
Mother: Doris REDDICK (1886-1971) 50
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Wife Hazel M HAWLEY (details suppressed for this person)
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Husband David Philip / Allen ROBLIN 5,8,129,130
Born: 19 Apr 1812 - Adolphustown Township, Lennox & Addington County, Ontario, Canada
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Died: 1 Mar 1863 - Napanee, Lennox & Addington Co, Ontario, Canada
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Father: Rev John Palen ROBLIN (1769-1813) 5,8,55,129,130,132
Mother: Mary Elizabeth MOORE (1774-1847) 55,129,130,132
Marriage: 1832
Wife Pamela "Millie" HAWLEY 5,129
Born: 1812 119
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Died: 1893 119
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1 M Jehiel Detlor ROBLIN 5
Born: 1833 119
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Died: Bef 1881
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Spouse: Louisa HOPE (1839- ) 5,52
2 M Marshall Perry ROBLIN 5,52
Born: 1834 - Ontario, Canada 119
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Died: 1892 149
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Spouse: Mary C. Ellen NUGENT (1837- ) 5,52,79
3 M David Allan ROBLIN 5
Born: 1837 119
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Died: 1886 149
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4 M Peter ROBLIN 5
Born: 1838 119
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5 M Charles ROBLIN 5,9
Born: 1839 - Canada 9,119
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Spouse: Janet PRINGLE (Abt 1836- ) 5,9
6 F Harriet Adeline "Ada" ROBLIN 5
Born: 1841 119
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Spouse: Thomas Keith ROSS ( - ) 5
7 F Emily "Anna" ROBLIN 5
Born: 1844 119
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Spouse: Peter James FLINDALL (living)
8 F Henrietta Amelia ROBLIN 5
Born: 1846 119
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Spouse: William Henry HOOPER (Abt 1844- ) 5
Marr: 17 Oct 1867 - Lennox & Addington County, Ontario, Canada 64
9 M James Bruce ROBLIN 5
Born: 1849 119
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Spouse: Margaret Ann (living)
10 F Emma Louisa ROBLIN 5,8
Born: 1854 119
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Spouse: James Hele HAMBLY ( - ) 5,8
11 M Francis Hincks ROBLIN 5,52
Born: 1857 - Ontario, Canada 52
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Spouse: Ellen NORRIS (1860- ) 5,52
Marr: 30 Jan 1879 - Napanee, Lennox & Addington Co, Ontario, Canada 64
12 M Thomas K ROBLIN (details suppressed for this person)
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Settled in Napanee
ROBLIN, DAVID, lumber merchant and politician; b. 19 April 1812 in Adolphustown Township, Upper Canada, fifth of the nine children of John Roblin and Mary Moore; m. in 1832 Pamelia Hawley, and they had ten children; d. 1 March 1863 at Napanee, Canada West.
John Roblin, an Adolphustown farmer and Methodist lay preacher, died when David was still a child. Largely “self-educated,” David opened a small general store in Richmond Township in 1832, moved his business to Napanee in 1841, and during the next decade expanded into the timber trade and speculation in United Empire Loyalist scrip with considerable success.
Like most Upper Canadian politicians of the period, Roblin entered politics through municipal channels. He was Richmond Township’s first reeve (1841–57), and served as first warden (1849–57) of the United Counties of Frontenac and Lennox and Addington. He used his considerable municipal influence to promote the passage of the Grand Trunk Railway legislation, the construction of the Addington Colonization Road, and the rebuilding of the county courthouse and jail in Kingston. His political influence also gained him such dividends in the 1850s as a large timber limit in Frontenac from the Francis Hincks* administration, a Grand Trunk Railway sub-contract to build a bridge over the Napanee River, and an appointment as company arbitrator for the GTR in April 1854.
Roblin was not simply a political “railwayman,” however, for Reform zeal ran through the family. Both his father and his cousin, John Philip Roblin*, sat in the assembly. David contested Lennox and Addington unsuccessfully in the 1844 and 1851 elections against the Tory incumbent Benjamin Seymour. Throughout his political career Roblin labelled himself a Reformer, and he was an admirer of Marshall Spring Bidwell*, Peter Perry*, and particularly Robert Baldwin*, whom he described in 1861 as “that good and great man, the lamented and ever-to-be revered champion of our liberties.”
Victorious in the elections of 1854, Roblin, along with such colleagues as John Ross*, Angus Morrison*, and Sidney Smith*, was persuaded by Hincks to join the new Liberal-Conservative coalition. Though he continued to identify himself as a Baldwin Reformer, he supported John A. Macdonald* loyally on every major issue, including Macdonald’s unpopular stand against representation by population.
Roblin survived the 1857 election, but the eclipse of his personal and political fortunes was already under way. Two unsuccessful legislative attempts, which he supported, to separate Lennox and Addington from Frontenac (in 1858 and 1860) alienated both his Addington supporters and the Kingston political triumvirate of Macdonald, Alexander Campbell*, and Sidney Smith. His lumber business, which had suffered severe losses in the 1857–58 depression following the collapse of the London, England, timber market, continued to decline, leading to the loss of his Frontenac timber limits and all his property except for the family home. In the election of 1861 he was defeated by the official Conservative candidate, Augustus F. G. Hooper*, a Newburgh merchant. Ill and bankrupt, Roblin retired from politics and died in 1863.
In 1857 Macdonald wrote of Roblin: “When I was in straits, he stood by me like a man & I can never forget him.” Yet for all Roblin’s faithful support of the Liberal-Conservative coalition, he continued to have a Reform identity, which was undoubtedly the root of his eventual defeat for it satisfied neither Clear Grits nor Conservatives in a period when the polarization of parties made the separate existence of the Baldwin Reform group both meaningless and irritating. The Toronto Globe, for example, castigated Roblin as a “Reform renegade,” at the same time that the Conservative Chronicle and News of Kingston labelled him one of Macdonald’s “most pliant instruments.” Indeed it was the support of such coalition Reformers as Roblin that provided the precarious edge the Conservatives enjoyed in the assembly throughout most of the decade after 1854.
James A. Eadie
Lennox and Addington Hist. Soc. (Napanee, Ont.), IV (Roblin family papers), A (David Roblin papers); V (John Stevenson papers) (copies at PAC). Napanee Standard (Napanee, [Ont.]), 1854–63. W. S. Herrington, History of the county of Lennox and Addington (Toronto, 1913), 151, 157, 206, 223, 275, 317, 341, 401–3. J. A. Eadie, “Politics in Lennox and Addington County in the pre-confederation period, 1854–1867” (unpublished ma thesis, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont., 1967); “The political career of David Roblin,” Lennox and Addington Hist. Soc., Papers and Records, (Napanee, Ont.), XIV (1972), 48–63.
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General Notes: Wife - Pamela "Millie" HAWLEY
-1861 census Napanee Roblin, David 49 MPP Roblin, Parmilia 49 Roblin, Peter 23 Roblin, Charles 22 Roblin, Harriet Adeline 20 Roblin, Ann Emily 17 Roblin, Henrietta Amelia 15 Roblin, James B. 12 Roblin, Emma 7 Roblin, Francis H. 5
General Notes: Child - Emma Louisa ROBLIN
Husband Sheldon HAWLEY 130
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Wife Nancy JOHNS 52,130
Born: 1803 - Ontario, Canada
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1 F Amanda Victoria HAWLEY 8,52,129,130
Born: 1837 - Ontario, Canada
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Spouse: David George ROBLIN (1839-Bef 1881) 5,8,129,130
Marr: 1857 149
2 M George F HAWLEY 52
Born: 1841 - Ontario, Canada
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Husband Jean Telesphore HAYDEL 167
Born: 10 Feb 1825 - Edgard, St. John The Baptist, Louisiana, USA
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Marriage: 9 Feb 1850 - Thibodaux, Lafourche, Louisiana, USA
Wife Marie Rosalie NAQUIN 167
Born: 26 Jun 1833 - Thibodaux, Lafourche, Louisiana, USA
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Died: 27 Jul 1855 - Thibodaux, Lafourche, Louisiana, USA
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Father: Joseph NAQUIN (1790-1860) 167
Mother: Celeste PREJEAN (1797-1860) 167
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Husband Philip HAYDEL (details suppressed for this person)
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Wife Josephine MORVANT 167
Born: Dec 1893 - Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, USA
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Father: Albert Joseph MORVANT (1860-1938) 167
Mother: Myrthile MIRE (1861- ) 167
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Husband Benjamin Appolinaire HEBERT 167
Born: 5 Dec 1865 - New Iberia, Iberia, Louisiana, USA
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Died: 1900 - St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, USA
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Father: Nicolas Mathurin HEBERT (1826- ) 167
Mother: Suzanne Pauline BOREL (1825- ) 167
Marriage: 2 Oct 1890 - Franklin, St. Mary, Louisiana, USA
Wife Rose Mary Anne HAYDEL 167
Born: 17 May 1871 - Patterson, St. Mary, Louisiana, USA
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1 M Earl Joseph Wilford HEBERT 167
Born: 19 Aug 1890 - Glencoe, St. Mary, Louisiana, USA
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Died: 19 Aug 1924 - Glencoe, St. Mary, Louisiana, USA
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Spouse: Hilda May OLIVIER (1890-1971) 167
2 M Benjamin Guy HEBERT 167
Born: 7 Mar 1894 - Glencoe, St. Mary, Louisiana, USA
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Spouse: Lula Mae OLIVIER (1896- ) 167
Marr: 17 Mar 1913 - St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, USA
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Wife Barbara HAYES (details suppressed for this person)
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Mother: Barbara KELMAN
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Wife Eleanor HAYES (details suppressed for this person)
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Mother: Barbara KELMAN
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