Frederick Fanning (1835)

Born 7 Sep 1835 in Sidney, Ontario

Ancestors

Biography

Born in 1835 as the eldest of 10 children. Five of the siblings (Frederick, Mary Matilda, Margaret Jane, George W, Hannah Alzina) were baptised in the Methodist Church on the same date -- 24 Feb 1854:

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1860 Hastings County Directory: Frederick Fanning, a law student, working for Lewis Wallbridge, Queen's Council, a barrister and Member of Parliament for South Hastings.^[1][2][3]

1864 Hastings County Directory: Frederick Fanning, "student at law", lives in the Mansion House on East Front Street, Belleville, Frederick's father Henry and his brother Walter G. Fanning are also listed, all being of adult age.

1869 Hastings County Directory: Frederick Fanning lives in the Mansion House on Front Street. (His father Henry had died in 1866; assuming Frederick had taken over as head of family, running the hotel, with mother & some younger siblings still at home. Next brother Walter George, now married, took over the omnibus & livery parts of the business.)

Paraphrased from W.F. Brooks' History of the Fanning Family (1905), p.576 and p.599:

• Frederick Fanning, born 7 Sep 1835, in the 4th Concession of Sidney, Ontario. When a young man he studied law for several years, but did not pursue a career as a barrister.

• He married Anna Maud Beatrice Sicken in Belleville, Ontario, on 20 Dec 1871. Anna was born 10 May 1856 in Rochester, New York, daughter of Whitney and Lavina (Derby) Sicken.

• They had one son, Charles Whitney, born 26 May 1873 in Rochester, New York. He was an engineer and in 1905 was living in Olean, New York, with his wife Harriet Adelaide Hosey, born 10 May 1873 in Napanee, Ontario.

• Frederick's wife Anna died at Morris, Illinois, on 11 Jul 1888 and is buried there.

• Frederick afterward removed to the United States and went West, and resided in Leadville, Colorado. He has been for some time engage in propsecting and mining.

Sources

1. ↑ Wallbridge's law offices were in the Dafoe Building, on Dundas Street between Front & Pinnacle, in Belleville.
2. ↑ The Dictionary of Canadian Biography provides a detailed look at Lewis Wallbridge's life and career:
   • http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=5887
3. ↑ Lewis Wallbridge & his younger brother Thomas Campbell Wallbridge (also a lawyer) were sons of William Holloway Walbridge, whose ancestors were early North American settlers of the 1600s, mostly to Connecticut.

• Loïc Fanning, firsthand knowledge.