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Owen ROBLIN

Owen ROBLIN[1]

Male 1806 - 1903  (97 years)

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  • Name Owen ROBLIN  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Alt. Birth 17 Dec 1804  Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Birth 8 Aug 1806  Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Gender Male 
    _UID 6516539CECF84751A189D22717023959B40A 
    Order in Council - UEL Land Grant 18 Jan 1834  Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Occupation Merchant 
    Roblin's Mill.jpg
    Roblin's Mill.jpg
    Religion C. Methodist 
    Death 8 Aug 1903  Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 10, 11
    Burial Grove Cemetery, Ameliasburgh, Prince Edward Co., ON Find all individuals with events at this location  [12
    Owen Roblin's gravestone.jpg
    Owen Roblin's gravestone.jpg
    Person ID I4020  Ryeland Family Tree
    Last Modified 19 Apr 2024 

    Father Philip ROBLIN, UE,   b. 17 Dec 1772, Smiths Clove, Orange, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 May 1848, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years) 
    Mother Prudence PLATT,   b. 6 Jan 1771, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Aug 1850, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Marriage 13 Jan 1793  Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 7
    Family ID F1157  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Huldah Selden CONGER,   b. 1811, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jul 1896, Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years) 
    Marriage 16 Feb 1831  Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Children 
     1. Mary Elizabeth ROBLIN,   b. 9 May 1834, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 May 1916, Cobourg, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
     2. Edward O ROBLIN,   b. 1836, Ameliasburgh, Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Dec 1900 (Age 64 years)
     3. Malcolm ROBLIN,   b. 1840   d. 1850 (Age 10 years)
     4. Phoebe Jane ROBLIN,   b. 5 Mar 1843   d. 1850 (Age 6 years)
     5. Roger Bates ROBLIN,   b. 18 Jan 1846, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Jul 1919 (Age 73 years)
     6. Donald ROBLIN,   b. 13 Oct 1851, Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Nov 1933, Toronto, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
    Family ID F1241  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 Nov 2014 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsAlt. Birth - 17 Dec 1804 - Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 8 Aug 1806 - Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 16 Feb 1831 - Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOrder in Council - UEL Land Grant - 18 Jan 1834 - Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 8 Aug 1903 - Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Grove Cemetery, Ameliasburgh, Prince Edward Co., ON Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    Owen Roblin, 1806-1903.jpg
    Owen Roblin, 1806-1903.jpg
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    Owen Roblin without frame.bmp
    Roblin's Mill.jpg
    Roblin's Mill.jpg

  • Notes 
    • Roblin Mills was dismantled and reconstructed as part of the Black Creek Pioneer Village near Toronto, where it still grinds out flour. - built by Owen.

      Another leading member of the family was Owen Roblin, a son of Philip. He was born in Sophiasburgh, and, after receiving his education under Jonathan Greely, removed to Ameliasburgh, where, in 1829, he took up four hundred acres in the third concession. This land is in part now held by W. J. McFaul and H. G. Staffordshire; and the latter lives on the old homestead. Owen Roblin conducted a general store and ashery, doing a large, and profitable business in sending the lye to Montreal. In 1838, or 1839, he traded lot 76 with John B. Way for lot 81, where the Ameliasburgh Roblin's Mills and homestead now stand. The village of Roblins Mills, or Ameliasburgh, as it is officially known, was first called Way's Mills, and was situated in the bend of the horseshoe below the hill on the present village stands.

      On taking possession of the Way property, Owen Roblin commenced to improve the water-power; his first act was to excavate the present canal from the lake. The extent of this work may be estimated from the fact that the blasting powder alone cost the equivalent of one thousand dollars. Besides farming five hundred acres, and attending to his many trading schemes and flouring mills, this busy man ran saw and carding mills. From his flour mills he shipped immense quantise of wheat and rye flour to Montreal; and during the Crimean War he exported day and night.

      Owen Roblin was a Justice of the Peace and Commissioner for taking affidavits; and for many years was a County Councillor and Reeve of his township. A post office was first opened in the village by a man called Meacham, who was Postmaster there for three years, when he was promoted to Belleville; and the Roblin's Mills' office was closed. It was reopened in 1845, with Owen Roblin as Postmaster, who held the post until his death, when he was said to be the oldest Postmaster in Canada. He was succeeded by his grandson, William H. C. Roblin, the present Postmaster. This grandson also closely followed Owen's son, Edward, as clerk of the Fourth Division Court, the interim holder of the post being William C. DeLong.

      One of the best known and most progressive men in the county, Owen Roblin, lived to the old age of ninety-seven years, only dying as recently as 1903. He married Huldah Selden Conger, a daughter of old Squire Stephen Conger; she died in 1896, aged eighty-five years.

      Federal Census of 1871 (Ontario Index)

      ROBLIN , OWEN

      Sex: Male Age: 64 Birthplace: ONTARIO Religion: Wesleyan Methodist Origin: ENGLISH Occupation: MERCHANT District: PRINCE EDWARD ( 059 ) Sub-district: Ameliasburgh ( C ) Division: 3 Page: 50 Microfilm reel: C-9989 Reference: RG31 [13]

  • Sources 
    1. [S20] FamilySearch International Genealogical Index v5.0, (URL: http://www.familysearch.org).

    2. [S174] Roblin family history gen-rob.001-4, (Owner: Seventh Town Historical Society & Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre).

    3. [S588] 1881 Canadian Census.

    4. [S422] 1901 Canadian Census, (Location: http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/NationalSummary.jsp).

    5. [S603] 1871 Canadian Census.

    6. [S194] Linda Herman, Roblin Family Pioneer Families of Ontario, (URL: http://users.erols.com/herman/roblin/roblin.html).

    7. [S139] Jerry Turner.

    8. [S420] Linda Heffernan.

    9. [S163] Ancestry.com, The Loyalists in Ontario.

    10. [S150] Rosalyn Insley, Rosalyn Insley.

    11. [S589] Ancestry.ca Ontario Death Records.

    12. [S175] Doug Norman Rootsweb Tree, (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dmn4211&id=I39435).

    13. [S205] Pioneer life on the Bay of Quinte, including genealogies of old families and biographical sketches of representative citizens, (Toronto, Ontario: Ralph and Clark URL: http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.asp?id=3658).


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