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• Occupation: Farmer
• Religion: Baptist
• Residence: 1881, Brighton, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada

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Living alone, a widow in 1901 census

Family/Spouse: Lucina BRADLEY. Lucina died before 1881. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Burton ROBLIN was born on 15 Oct 1877 in Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada; and died.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth BELL. Elizabeth was born in 1841 in Ontario, Canada; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Effie ROBLIN was born in 1868 in Ontario, Canada; died in 1890.
2. Rosa ROBLIN was born in 1870 in Ontario, Canada; and died.

Family/Spouse: Sarah PARKS. Sarah and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert Franklin ROBLIN was born on 5 Sep 1902 in Brighton, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada; and died.
2. Rev Leander ROBLIN was born on 15 May 1904 in Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada; and died.

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• _UID: 8B754B8937254947AF53005BEAADB052B603
• Occupation: Farmer

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Settled finally in Brighton

John Wesley Roblin (Jacob3, Owen2,Owen1) son of Jacob Roblin and Sarah Vandusen was born Aug. 18, 1820 in Sophiasburg. March 7, 1839 in Sophiasburg, John married Elizabeth C. Anderson, born about 1820.

John, age 42, is listed in the 1861 Sophiasburg Census with Elizabeth, age 42, Leander, age 22, John W. age 20, Jacob L (?) age 17, Edward M., age 11, Helen A., age 7, and George H., age 3. In 1871 John, age 51 is living in Hallowell with Elizabeth, age 52, Edward 21, George 13 and Helen, age 17. In 1881 John age 60, is living in Brighton with Elizabeth, age 62 and George, age 22. In 1891 John, age 71 is living in Brighton Twp with Elizabeth, age 75 and George, age 32 and wife Myra, age 26.

Elizabeth died Dec 9, 1897; John died Dec 28, 1897, both in Brighton Twp. They are buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Died:
Or Dec 28th

Buried:
Mount Hope Cemetery

John married Elizabeth C ANDERSON on 7 Mar 1839 in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. Elizabeth was born about 1820 in Ireland; died on 9 Dec 1897 in Brighton, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Brighton, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
Mount Hope Cemetery

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Settled in Sophiasburgh, and then Demorestville, Prince Edward County, Ont.

Jacob Roblin (Owen2,Owen1) son of Owen Roblin Jr. and Mary Elizabeth Ruttan was born 1795 in Adolphustown. Jacob married Sarah VanDusen August 7, 1816 in Adolphustown. Sarah b. May 26, 1798 was daughter of Conrad VanDusen and Millicent Ferguson.

In the 1861 census Jacob, age 68, and Sarah, age 64 are living in Sophiasburg with son Conrad. In 1871, Jacob, age 76 and Sarah , age 74, are living in Sophiasburg with son, Owen.

Jacob died June 7, 1876. Sarah, age 83, is found in the 1881 Census living in Sophiasburg with daughter, Sarah E. and husband Austin Osborne. Son, Jacob, age 56, is also living with his mother and sister in Sophiasburg in 1881.

Sarah died Dec 12, 1883.

Jacob married Sarah VANDUSEN on 7 Aug 1815 in Adolphustown Township, Lennox & Addington County, Ontario, Canada. Sarah (daughter of Conrad VANDUSEN and Millicent FERGUSON) was born on 26 May 1798 in Adolphustown Township, Lennox & Addington County, Ontario, Canada; died on 12 Dec 1883. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
or 1816

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Owen Roblin married Margaret Ruttan, and had a large farm on the third concession of Adolphustown, where he lived for many years and died at an advanced age. To distinguish him from the many other prominent men of his own name, now a familiar one throughout the county, he was called the "one-eyed" Roblin, owing to the fact that at an early age he suffered the misfortune of losing the sight of one eye. His descendants are numerous and are recognized as many of the leading business men and farmers in the county.

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He cam to Canada with his father in the Vanalstine Party to Canada. He lived and died in Adolphustown/> His will was dated March 23, 1852. He was known as "one eyed Owen" from an accident when a child stuck a stick in his eye.

Owen and Mary lived on Lot 24 , Con 3 in Adolphustown. They are found there in 1794 with one male and one female both over 16 years of age. In 1851 Owen P. 85 and Mary 76, are living in Adolphustown with their son Stephen Roblin and his family

Owen married Margaret RUTTAN about 1793. Margaret (daughter of Jacob William RUTTAN and Margaret HARING) was born in Jan 1776 in Paramus, Bergen, New Jersey, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Mary Elizabeth RUTTAN

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61. William RUTAN Lieutenant was born on 2 Apr 1759 in Schraalenburgh, Bergen, New Jersey. Christened on 24 Jun 1759 in Schraalenburgh, Bergen, New Jersey. Died on 9 Oct 1843 in Adolphustown, Lennox & Addington, Ontario. Buried on 11 Oct 1843 in St. Albans, Adolphustown, Lennox & Addington, Ontario. NAME: "Retan" according to IGI.

MILITARY SERVICE: "...though only 17 at the outbreak of the revolution, was commissioned Lieutenant of the Associated Loyalists. His older brother was Captain Peter Ruttan, who had commanded a regiment during the revolution and who was second in command of Major Van Alstine's party ofloyalists that landed at Adolphustown in March, 1784. William and his wife, Margaret, were of that party." (Stuart Adams letter, July 21, 1991).

CHILDREN: "There first child, an infant, died on the trip from Montreal to Adolphustown." (Stuart Adams letter, July 21, 1991).

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: "William also settled in Adolphustown, married and Irish girl, Margaret Steele, who had crossed the ocean with her parents. In the hungry years of 1788 in order to get some food William, who had some money saved from the sale of his commission, sent two men to lbany during the winter months for four bushels of Indian corn which they carried on their backs through forests without roads. As the Ruttans possessed a cow, her milk, plus the precious corn, with roots and berries from the woods, provided enough nourishment to keep eight persons alive until the following harvest." (Reaman, 1964 p.219).

RESIDENCE: "William took his two hundred acres immediately east of the Adolphustown village site and Peter took his on a point of land northwest of the village." (Stuart, 1991 p?).

BIOGRAPHY: "Anyway, William Ruttan (Peter William and Henry 's father) seems to have been a properous man, too, more prosperous than his older brother, Captain Peter. William and Peter and Peter William's wife's mother Elizabeth Roblin, were amongst the twenty-two who paid for the building of Upper Canada's first Episcopal Methodist Church, in 1792, at Hay Bay, near Adolphustown. (Adams, 1991 p.5).

RELIGION: "William, however, joined St. Alban's Anglican Church, Adolphustown, when it was built in 1822 and is buried in St. Alban's cemetery. He may, in fact, have played a part in building the Anglican church and perhaps even donated the building site, since the church seems to be about where William's land would have been. His converting to more respectable and establishment Anglicanism was, and remains, a typical thing for a prospering Canadian to do but I like to think that his conversion had something to do with the Methodist preacher's having talked him into burning his beloved violin, telling him it was the Devil's instrument. Perhaps it was his wife, Fanny, and her mother, the redoubtable Elizabeth Roblin, who had roped him into Methodism and he later counter-rebelled, preferring music now to heaven later." (Adams, 1991 p.5).

DEATH: "Ruttan, William, a descendant of a family of Huguenots from Rochelle, France, who sought refuge in England and america, died in Adolphustown, the 9th inst., in his 85th year" ("The Christian Guardian" newspaper death notice of October 25, 1843, p.3, cited in "Death Notices from the Christian Guardian 1836-1850 by Rev. Donald A. McKenzie, published by Hunterdon House on Lambertville, N.J., in 1982, page 271).

CEMETERY: St. Albans Anglican Church Cemetery, Adolphustown, #33. Inscription reads died Oct 1843, aged 84 years.

He married Margaret STEEL on 10 Jun 1782 in New York. Margaret STEEL was born in 1764 in Ireland. Died on 1 Feb 1844 in Adolphustown, Lennox & Addington, Ontario. Buried on 5 Feb 1844 in St. Albans, Adolphustown, Lennox & Addington, Ontario.

DEATH: "Ruttan, Mrs Margaret, wife of Wm. Ruttan, died in Adolphustown, the 1st inst., in her 80th year. feb. 21, 1844 p.71. D.N." (cited in D.A. McKenzie's "Death Notices from the Christian Guardian 1836 - 1850" p.271).

DEATH: H. N. Ruttan records "Margaret died on February 1 and was interred beside William (in the Cemetery of St. Paul's Church [Church of England]) on February 5, 1844." "Ruttan, Mrs. Margaret, wife of Wm. Ruttan, died in Adolphustown, the 1st inst., in her 80th year." ("The Christian Guardian" Newspaper death notice, February 21, 1844, p.71, cited in "Death Notices from The Christian Guardian 1836-1850 by Rev. Donald A. McKenzie, Hunterdon House: Lambertville, N.J., 1982).

CEMETERY: St. Albans Anglican Church Cemetery, Adolphustown, #33. Inscription reads died Feb 1844, aged 80 years, wife of William

SIBLING: Mathew Steel, a loyalist

NAME: Given as "Margaret Steele" in G. Elmore Reaman's book (1964, p.219).

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: "... an Irish girl, Margaret Steele, who had crossed the ocean with her parents." (Reaman, 1964 p.219).

They had the following children:

81 i. RUTTAN was born after Nov 1783 in Sorel, Richelieu, Quebec. Died before Oct 1784.

+82 ii. Peter William RUTTAN

+83 iii. Daniel RUTTAN

+84 iv. Henry RUTTAN Major

+85 v. Abraham W RUTTAN

+86 vi. Elizabeth RUTTAN

+87 vii. Matthew RUTTAN

+88 viii. Jacob RUTTAN

+89 ix. Charles Stuart RUTTAN



62. John RUTAN was born about 1760.

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Conrad married Millicent FERGUSON. Millicent (daughter of Richard FERGUSON and Charlotte Rachel) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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