Owen ROBLIN^[1]

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   [7]
  Birth	8 Aug 1806	Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada   [8]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	6516539CECF84751A189D22717023959B40A
  Order in Council - UEL Land Grant	18 Jan 1834	Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada   [9]
  Occupation	Merchant
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  Religion	C. Methodist
  Death	8 Aug 1903	Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada   [7, 10, 11]
  Burial	Grove Cemetery, Ameliasburgh, Prince Edward Co., ON   [12]
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  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 d. 17 May 1848, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Prudence PLATT,   b. 6 Jan 1771, New York, USA d. 24 Aug 1850, Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	13 Jan 1793	Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada   [1, 7]
  Family ID	F1157	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Huldah Selden CONGER,   b. 1811, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada d. 26 Jul 1896, Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	16 Feb 1831	Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada   [10]
  Children	1. Mary Elizabeth ROBLIN,   b. 9 May 1834, Ontario, Canada d. 17 May 1916, Cobourg, , Ontario, Canada (Age 82 years)   2. Edward O ROBLIN,   b. 1836, Ameliasburgh, Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada d. 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 d. 15 Jul 1919 (Age 73 years)   6. Donald ROBLIN,   b. 13 Oct 1851, Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada d. 13 Nov 1933, Toronto, , Ontario, Canada (Age 82 years)
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2014
  Family ID	F1241	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Alt. Birth - 17 Dec 1804 - Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Birth - 8 Aug 1806 - Sophiasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Marriage - 16 Feb 1831 - Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada Order in Council - UEL Land Grant - 18 Jan 1834 - Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada Death - 8 Aug 1903 - Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada Burial - - Grove Cemetery, Ameliasburgh, Prince Edward Co., ON  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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

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