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- Mary is the daughter of Miriam Griffin & Charles Meredith, U.E.
. UCLPetition 46, F Bundle 13, C1897, p589.
The Petition of Mary Felker of Grimsby*, That your petitioner is the daughter of the late Charles Meredith * of Grimsby & enrolled UE loyalist & is married to Lewis Felker of Grimsby, but is removed to Grainborough Twp. & has never had any lands. Therefore humbly prays that your Honor be pleased to grant her 200 acres of crown land.
Signed, Mary, HERXMARK Felker, 11 day April 1820. Court House of Niagara.
. I do Certify that Mary Felker, the above named petitioner is there person she described to be, & has never had any order for Crown lands.
Signed, Richard Meredith [i.e. her brother].
. Read 17 April, 1822, Recommended for 200 Acres. Ordered issued 26 Apr, 1822.
We, Wm. Dickson, Esq., Clerk of the Peace, certify the Mary Felker appeared at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace this day is recognized by the Magistrates to be the daughter of the late Charles Meredith who retained his loyal during the late war, without aiding or assisting the enemy & is married to Lewis Felker. Alexander Napier of York, Gentleman to her her agent to locate the same.
Date, at the Court House at Niagara, this 11 Day April, 1820.
. written at the bottom is: York, 27 March, 1820,
. I certify that Petitioner, Mary Falker was alive a few days ago & that she moved to Gainsborough near Grimsby. Signed, Daniel Clendenin.
Envelope: Petition 47 of Mary Felker for land. 11 April 1820, Entered in Land Book L (?) page 214, DUE. Govt. House, 17 Apr 1820, Referenced to the Inspector General for his Report for Council by Order.
Ref: Archives of Ontario, Microfilm C1897.
Note1: The younger Meredith children, including Mary Meredith were unable to read & write like their parents & brothers Richard & 1851 Garafraxa West Twp., Wellington Co.
. 1824 SETTLEMENT DUTY PERFORMED as attached & admitted.
Signed, York, 29 June 1824, T. Ridout, Survey General.
NOTE1: Thus Mary, Lewis Felker & her brother Jesse Meredith & sister Anne Meredith were in the wilds of Garafraxa before 1824 to be able to earn their land, build a log cabin 16 X 20 feet. By March 1824 Lewis Felker had moved permanently to the Garafraxa wilderness. - PJ Ahlberg.
. Upper Canada Land Book, Page 214, [C103, Archives of Canada]
Council Chambers at York, Wednesday, 1822 April 17, Present James Baby, Samuel Smith, Rev. Doctor John Strachan.
Mary Felker, F46, Praying for a grant of land as the Son of a U.E. Loyalist.
Granted 2 Acres as such.
. 1822 Garafraxa Twp. Location Ticket, Original is the Archives of Ontario & a copy can be found in the Wellington County Museum.
. During its lifetime Belwood used 3 names Skeneville & Douglas being the first two & in 1878 the hamlet was still known as Garafraxa Village & the post office there operated as Douglas. . Shand Dam was built during the early 1940's. Before some of its buildings were removed to higher ground, the village boasted a mill, post office, lime kilns, grain elevator, foundry, shoe shop, sash & door factory, hardware & drug store, shoe shop, tailor shop, grocery stores, jewellery store, barber shop & library, butcher shop, blacksmith shop, branch bank, hotel, churches, and town hall. And in 1869, Garafraxa divided into 2 townships–East and West.
. In 1837, there were only 3 teams of horses in Fergus, & they belonged to Messrs Black, Watt & Webster. Cattle were almost as scarce & money even more so. Business was nearly all done by trade up to the year '45 & later. There was but little grain for sale & the prices in trade very low. Oats ruled at six pence, mill seeds 3 coppers more, wheat 2 shillings & 3 pence & 9 pence for all. No sale for potatoes. There was no butcher and little meat.
. 1842 - There was no Belwood road - all going up the Owen Sound road to the Green settlement. The Belwood road was surveyed & under-brushed in '42, the directions to the surveyor being to keep on dry ground & thus a crooked road came to pass." 1842 was the year of the great snow, coming Nov. 1st and staying till April 14th.
Ref: Fergus Elora news Express, pub. 2002.4.3.
Ontario Land Registry Abstract, Book West Garafraxa, Book 71, p.141
Lot 16 & 17 SWHalf, 7 Con, 200 Acres:
. 1824 Sep 4, Patent, Crown to Mary Felker, 100 Acres SW half Con 7. Lot 16;
. 1845 Aug 4, Bargain&Sale, Lewis Felker & wife as to Dower, to John Watt, L16 W quarter, 50A
. 1849 Apr 28, B&S John Watt & Wife, to James Ferrier, Quarter, 50A
. 1856 Nov 20, Mary & Lewis Felker, to James Ferrier NW, 50A
. 1867 Mar 7, WILL, Mary Felker, to William Felker, West [1 seventh? Acre}
. 1870 Feb 24, Mtge. Abram Felker & Wife, to Alex Black xxA
. 1879 Feb 8, Release, Elizth, Wm., AXX, Abram Felker, to David Ferrier, NW Acres?
. 1883 Dec 14, Abty?, Abram Felker & Wife, to Alex. Barnet $900.
. 1906 Jun 25, Res. WILL, Abram Felker Decd. to George L Felker, S quarter 50A
. 1913 Apr 12, B&S, Geo L Filker & wife, To Robt. S Swift, 50A
. 1913 Apr 12, 2 Claim, James Felker, unmarried, to Geo Felker, 50A
Lot 17, Con 7 100 Acres
. 1860 Jun 18, B&S, Mary & Lewis Felker, to John Felker, SEHalf L17, 50 Acres
. 1867 Mar 7, WILL, Mary Felker, to Wm & Abraham Felker.
. 1870 Feb 24, Mgt. Abram Felker & Wife, to Alex Banet?, 500A.
. 1878 Nov 21, Mortg., John Felker& Wife, to Mary A Jeff,
. 1887 Dec 2, Quit Claim Henrietta Felker, widow & Annie Felker Spinster, to Francis E Felker, 50 Acres. $1.00 [Presumed to be Francis E Felker.3 junior, as his father died in 1859].
. 1906 Jan 25, Pro WILL, Abram Felker, decd, to James Felker W 50 A. subject to portage & legacy.
. 1909 May 29. Release of Estate. Mellissa McDonald, James Felker, W 20 A
. 1913 Apr 9, Disc. Mortg., Margaret Narin?, to James & G L Felker. [Last Felker entry].
. 1852 Census Bellwood, Wellington Co.
Falker, Lewis, Age 56 /1795, born US, Methodist, Farmer;
Mary, Age 54, 1797, born Canada West (Ontario), Methodist;
Mariah Age 23, 1828, born Canada West, Methodist;
Martha, Age 17, 1834, born Canada West, Methodist;
Elias, Age 20, 1831, born Canada West, Methodist;
Abraham Falker, Age 18, 1835/ born Canada West, Methodist.
Note2 from Census: Nearby "saw Mill reported that pine was very scarce; Post Office is much wanted here."
Note3: Nearby are sons John & William Felker with their families .
. Felker Family History, 1981 March 23, by Mrs. T J Hutchison:
Old Mrs. Felker was probably the first white woman to sleep in Garafraxa Township. This was a statement made by John Dobbin in a newspaper article in March 9, 1869 issue of Guelph Mercury. John Dobbin Sr. had come to the Carmel-Dracon area of Garafraxa Twp. in July 1826, with his family of 12 children, although some of the girls may not have come, for they married in Galt-Hespeler area.
But John Dobbin records that they were preceded by the Felker, Headley & Meredith families in March 1826. This was over a year before the first tree was cut in Guelph. They came by way of what is now 15 Sideroad, but there was no road then, only the original survey done in 1821. (There should be a copy of this letter in the Museum, along with several other letters that ran in the Guelph Mercury about that time. In the article John Dobbin continued, Mrs Felker is still living on W half Lot 16, Con 7, 6th line, where she moved 43 years ago (1826) (but the newspaper clipping itself was not dated.)
Family of Lewis & Mary Felker were: Abraham, William & John. Buried at Carmel. - - - [1, 2]
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