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William Quider - Shipbuilder

Generation No. 1

1. WILLIAM³ QUIDER (WILLIAM², UNKNOWN¹)^1,^2,^3,^4,^5,^6,^7,^8,^9,¹⁰ was born February 22, 1787 in Monkwearmouth, Durham County, England. He married (1) ANN BURGAR¹¹, daughter of PETER BURGAR and UNKNOWN. She was born Abt. 1800 in Upper Canada. He married (2) SARAH SHIELDS.

Notes for WILLIAM QUIDER:
HIS CHILDHOOD

Finding further information on William's parents and siblings has proven to be very difficult. There was a fire in Monkwearmouth, England on April 12, 1790. Records were destroyed. An attempt was made soon afterward to reconstruct the Registers by getting parishioners to hand in copies of what was in their Family Bible. The records so produced are very, very incomplete as they only apply to families who had a Bible, were literate and had adequate money. As a result there are two notebooks stored with the registers in Durham Record Office, which have these entries "as they came in" ( in no sensible order at all).

The church that William was christened in, St. Peter's Church, became a Cathedral in 1919. It was then that it was renamed to St. Peter's Cathedral.

An indenture shows that on May 5, 1800, when he was 13 years old, William was apprenticed with a firm of John & Philip Laing, shipwrights on Monkwearmouth shore.

William was said to have apprenticed with 2 shipbuilders on the Monkwearmouth shore, John & Philip Laing. Philip was a yoeman farmer and shipowner who migrated to Monkwearmouth from the Fifeshire village of Pittenweem in 1792. He had been trained as a doctor of medicine, but changed his vocation. He was 30 years of age when William began his apprenticeship. John Laing was a brother of Philip and was previously in the shipbuilding business at the north-west corner of the North Sands.

An office fire destroyed the records of ships built by the Laings in the early years. Philip Laing attempted to write up a list of ships in his later years, but it is believed that he had forgotten or was unaware of some of these ships.

The firm is now called Sir James Laing & Sons, Ltd. and as of the year 2000, has been shipbuilding on the Wear River for 207 years.

William later became a shipwright. A shipwright is a carpenter that is skilled in ship construction and repair.

THE MILITARY

William served in the Royal Navy. He was first stationed at the Naval Base at Kingston, Ontario in about 1810. He was later sent to The Royal Navy Grand River Naval Depot (Now called Port Maitland Naval Base) which is located at the mouth of the Grand River. Afterward, William settled near the Grand River in Canborough, Ontario. William was a member of the 3rd Company of the Haldimand Militia in 1828.

SETTLING IN CANBOROUGH, ONTARIO

William was among the first settlers to Canborough, Ontario (now Dunnville). Settlers to Canborough had no roads by which to get to Canborough. They had to arrive by boat with all their possessions. Close around settlers was dense forest, full of swamps and infested by rattlesnakes, wolves and bears. Many settlers were on the verge of starvation as land was not suitable for crops. Those lands that were cleared were prepared for crops and building homes. Crops were harvested by sickle and flail. Wild game and fish often provided meat for dinner. Women spun wool to produce rough cloth suitable for making clothes and baked bread in fireplaces.

HIS LAND

William leased Dochstader Tract, Lot 12 in Canboro, Ontario beginning in 1820 until 1835. William later obtained these 42 acres of land through a crown grant and land sale in the Niagara District of Haldimand County between June 16 and July 6 of 1836. William is also known to have leased at least 132 acres of land in Dunnville.

William Quider's Land - Canboro, Ontario 1842

Number of acres and what William harvested on them -

Wheat - 42 acres
Barley - 12 acres
Buckwheat - 4 acres

Hives of bees owned by family - 47
Pounds of maple sugar made by family - 45

Animals owned -
3 sheep
1 hog

8 yards of cloth manufactured by family
1 yard of linen manufactured by family

SHIPCAPTAIN

William owned a tug boat which he used on the Grand River in Dunnville, Ontario. William went along the river and the Welland Feeder Canal in his tugboat, carrying fare-paying passengers between points along the river. He also took passengers from Brantford, Ontario to Buffalo, NY.

A MAN OF MANY TALENTS

William built floating bridges in Dunnville.

William also worked as a cabinet maker and did all the detailed woodwork in nearby homes.

More About WILLIAM QUIDER:
Confirmation: December 06, 1795, Monkwearmouth, Durham County, England
Crown Land Grant: 1836, Haldimand County, Ontario¹²
Military service 1: 1810, Royal Navy
Military service 2: 1828, Haldimand Militia¹³
Nickname: Captain¹⁴
Occupation 1: Shipwright/Ship Captain
Occupation 2: 1861, Lumber Merchant
Religion: 1851, Church of England

More About ANN BURGAR:
Nickname: Anna
Religion: 1851, Church of England

Children of WILLIAM QUIDER and ANN BURGAR are:

2.	i.	SARAH⁴ QUIDER, b. 1820; d. April 21, 1894.
3.	ii.	WILLIAM JOHN QUIDER, b. May 29, 1823, Canboro, Ontario, Canada; d. February 13, 1892, Buffalo, NY.
	iii.	BURTON QUIDER, b. May 30, 1829, Upper Canada; d. June 29, 1852, Canboro, Ontario, Canada.

Notes for BURTON QUIDER:
Died at 23 years old.

More About BURTON QUIDER:
Occupation: 1851, Schoolmaster
Religion: 1851, Episcopal Methodist

4.	iv.	MARY ANN QUIDER, b. May 1830; d. March 14, 1903, Dunnville, Ontario.
	v.	HANNAH E. QUIDER, b. 1833, Upper Canada.
5.	vi.	BARTON QUIDER, b. 1837, Ontario, Canada; d. October 19, 1908.
	vii.	CATHERINE QUIDER, b. 1838, USA.
6.	viii.	RICHARD QUIDER, b. 1839, USA or Germany.
	ix.	SUSAN J. QUIDER¹⁵, b. 1846, Canborough, Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada; m. SIDNEY H. CURETON, December 28, 1872, Canborough, Haldimand County, Ontario; b. 1846, England.

Notes for SUSAN J. QUIDER:
Susan was the youngest girl, born sometime after 1840.

Notes for SIDNEY H. CURETON:
In Susan and Sidney's marriage notice, Sidney Cureton's name is followed by the title "esquire" which once meant "Man of Position".

More About SIDNEY H. CURETON:
Nationality: English
Occupation: 1872, railway contractor

Generation No. 2

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