My Family Tree

A daughter Mary was named in the will of Angus McFadyen.

There was a Hannah McFayden in Charlottetown in the 1881 census, working for the family of Richard and Jane Heartz. She was 28, or born in 1853. (Richard Heartz did have a connection to Clyde River)

I don't know if the attached record is the right marriage for Hannah Mary McFadyen, in 1886. It seems logical that her brother Archibald would name a daughter for his sister (Hannah Marie). And Robert and Mary Roper were the witnesses at the marriage of Annie McFadyen in November 1886. On the marriage bond, Hannah McFadyen was from Charlottetown, and Robert Roper was from St. Peter's Road, Lot 34. The bond co-signer was Angus Darrach, and he and Christy McFadyen were witnesses.

There was a Marey Roper, born 1851, in the 1891 census, with husband Robert. Both of her parents were born in Scotland. Robert and Mary were both Church of England. There were no further census records found. They were not in the CMNI cemetery transcripts, or in the Guardian newspaper.

There was a death record for a Hannah Roper, who died and was buried in Charlottetown at St. Paul's in April 1898 at the age of 53 (b. 1843). Robert Roper died a few months later, in August 1898, at age 62 (pre-1906 Death Index. St. Paul's Anglican Church, Charlottetown).

Robert Roper was born around 1837 on the Island, with parents born in England. He could be a member of the same family as Samuel Roper, who emigrated with his parents in 1830. Robert was a widower at the time of his marriage to Hannah Mary McFadyen.

Tentative dates for Mary Hannah would be 1845-1898, which fits with the 1848 census.

Roper Mrs. Robert Summerside Journal 27 April 1898, page 5, col. 2 At Charlottetown on the 25th inst., Hannah, aged 53 years, wife of Robert Roper

Roper Robert Summerside Journal 10 August 1898, page 5, col. 3 Suddenly at Charlottetown Royalty on the 5th inst., Robert Roper, aged 63 years. Deceased was working in a hay field and asked a little girl to bring him a drink of water, but when the child arrived with the water he was breathing his last.