Joseph Folkins Jr, one of my 3 x great grandfathers was born March 20, 1795 in Hampstead, Queens Co., New Brunswick, Canada. Died April 6, 1868 in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
He married Hannah Frazee Dec. 4, 1817 in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
1. Edward Kipp
2. Phyllis Margaret Link (b November 19, 1906) - Carievale, Saskatchewan, Canada (m Lorne Kipp)
3. Margaret Evelyn Allen (b Nov. 3, 1880) - McLean Twp., Muskoka, Ontario, Canada (m Horace Lorenzo Link)
4. Hannah Catherine Parlee (b July 31, 1841) - Studholm, Kings Co., New Brunswick, Canada (m James C Allen)
5. Margaret Folkins (b Jan. 12, 1823) - Sussex, Kings Co., New Brunswick, Canada (m John Casey Parlee)
*6. Joseph Folkins Jr. (b March 20, 1795) - Hampstead, Queens Co., NB, Canada (m Hannah Frazee)
7. Joseph Folkins Sr. (b Oct. 3, 1753) - [Netherlands or Germany] (m Annah Lydecker)
Sources:
Hannah Catherine Parlee (m James C Allen July 17, 1856)
At age 12 she moved to Burford, Ontario with her family (1852). After marriage they moved to London, Ontario, and then Baysville, Muskoka in 1872, where James died in 1899. In March 1903, at age 63, she homesteaded in Saskatchewan with her two sons John Frederick and Emerson Jones but sold out in July 1910 and returned to Ontario in 1911. She went to live in Gelert, Ontario with her invalid daughter Mrs. J.B. Sedgwick. After her daughter died, she lived with her son Charles at Tomstown. No known gravestone.
Dusty Trails, Abandoned Rails, Storthoaks/Fertile Historical Society, 1988.
The Folkins Family: Some Descendants of Joseph Folkins and Anna Lydekker to the Seventh Generation, by William H. Folkins, edited by Gail Louise Folkins, 1994.
1851 Canadian Census. New Brunswick. Kings Co. (2). Parish of Studholm (40). p. 51. LAC mf C-995.
1901 Canadian Census: Ontario. 97 North Ontario. McLean Twp. G-1. p. 10. LAC mf T-6486
1906 Canadian Census: Saskatchewan. Assiniboia East 11. p. 22. LAC mf T-18358.
1911 Canadian Census: Saskatchewan. Assiniboia 207. Sub-Dist. 16. p. 1. LAC mf 20450.
1921 Census of Canada. Ontario. Victoria 135. Snowdon Twp 38. P. 6. Folder 93.
Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Registrations of Deaths, 1869-1938. MS935. Reel_427. Timiskaming District. Ingram Twp. June 24, 1931. Reg. # 032905. Age 89. B New Brunswick. Senilty, Arterio sclerosis.
Margaret Folkins (m John Casey Parlee Aug. 1, 1839)
Falcon. Methodist. McLean Twp. Muskoka lot 2 con. 7.
Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario Canada. Registrations of Deaths, 1869-1932. MS935. Muskoka District Sept. 12, 1901. Reg. # 018863. Heart weakness for years.
1901 Canadian Census: Ontario. 97 North Ontario. McLean Twp. G-1. p. 10. LAC mf T-6486
The Folkins Family: Some Descendants of Joseph Folkins and Anna Lydekker to the Seventh Generation, by William H. Folkins, edited by Gail Louise Folkins, 1994.
Buried Baysville, McLean Twp., Muskoka, Ontario, Canada.
Joseph Folkins Jr (m Hannah Frazee Dec. 4, 1817)
Frazees of New Brunswick, Descendants of Lewis and Catherine (Thorne) Frazee, compiled by W.J. Frazee, 1994.
The Folkins Family: Some Descendants of Joseph Folkins and Anna Lydekker to the Seventh Generation, by William H. Folkins, edited by Gail Louise Folkins, 1994.
1851 Canadian Census: New Brunswick, Parish of Studholm, Dist. 2, Kings Co., p. 61. LAC mf C-995.
Joseph Folkins Sr (m Annah Lydecker m Jan. 18, 1791)
Joseph was either born in Netherlands or Germany. He emigrated to Philidelphia, US with his mother in 1755. There he was bound to a farmer who lived near the mouth of the Scholes Kill River, and lived with him until he was 21. Sometime around 1782 they moved to New Brunswick on the Saint John River near Hampsted in Queens Co. After 1809 he received land at Millstream, Kings Co. NB. Buried Old Berwick Cemetery, Millstream, NB.
A LITTLE MORE HISTORY - OUR LOYALIST ANCESTORS
(Folkins Family Newsletter V4, N6, Feb. 2014)
Joseph Folkins and Anna Lydekker were among the thousands of refugee loyalists who, in spite of some pretty obvious political and taxation problems, had wanted the American colonies to remain within the British Empire. While the War of Independence was raging, life became very uncomfortable for those who supported the British side in the conflict. Lands and houses were confiscated. Businesses were lost. Families were divided. We believe Joseph's home had been near Philadelphia.
Staten Island, NJ became a giant refugee camp for the loyalists. From there, and from New York City, in the spring and summer of 1783 thousands of loyalists were transported by sea to British held territories in what are now the Atlantic Provinces of Canada. The largest number of those loyalists debarked at the mouth of the Saint John River. Some lived in tents and shacks for many months, plagued by illness and without adequate food and other supplies. That instant city was later incorporated and renamed Saint John.
The process of dealing with promised land grants moved slowly but eventually thousands of grants were approved. Anna Lydekker (about 17 years old), her father, Samuel, and her brothers, Samuel Jr. and Richard, were among those who arrived with the Spring Fleet. The Lydekkers were assigned the 200 acre lot # 28 on Washademoak Lake, In Queen's County. Samuel complained that the land was so poor they couldn't subsist on it and petitioned for compensation. (Seeing lot #28 in 2011, Danny Folkins and I agreed it would be a nice site for a vacation home, but not so much for farming). Anna Lydekker married Gilbert Lester, who had been granted Lot # 3 on the Lake. Gilbert died soon after their marriage and Anna successfully petitioned to have his grant
transferred to her name. Samuel Lydekker eventually purchased land at Hampstead and moved his family there.
Fortunately for us, Joseph Folkins also went to Hampstead to live with, or near, his mother, Mary Carr, who had been married for some time to a British settler named Peter Carr. Joseph was fortunate to have the Carr's to welcome him and to have the lovely, educated widow Lester as a near neighbor. However, their courtship wasn't exactly hurried. The record shows that Joseph and Anna weren't married until January 18, 1791. They became the parents of 10 children. In 1808 they moved to their own land grants on Pleasant Ridge, about ten miles from Sussex, where they had a wide view of the Millstream Valley - and good neighbors. Among those neighbors were other loyalist families whose blood runs through our veins: Frazees, Parlees, Sharps, Shecks, Johnsons
and many others.
The Ancestry of Anna Lydekker, 1766-1855, including ancestors who immigrated into New Netherland. Compiled by William H. Folkins and John R. Elliott, 1996.
New Brunswick Courier, March 26, 1842, Saint John, New Brunswick.
The Folkins Family: Some Descendants of Joseph Folkins and Anna Lydekker to the Seventh Generation, by William H. Folkins, edited by Gail Louise Folkins, 1994.
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