Your story: Marmora Pioneers
/The story of the Fidlar family in Marmora begins in Scotland, when Magnus (Magness) Fidlar, a boat builder born on Aug. 26, 1759, in Stromness, Orkney Scotland, married Janet Irvine (born 1766). It was their son, John, a sailor, who settled in Marmora, in what is now known as Fidlar's Glen, on the Beaver Creek.
Lucky for us, a sampler, survives, embroidered by John's daughter, Janet, when she was only eleven years old in 1851. The sampler is now inthe possession of a descendant, Bill Inkster of Kincardine, Ontario .This photo was sent to us by Jennifer Kolthammer of Lake Jackson, Texas.
