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Re: Peter and Donald Fowlie -- no trace of birth?
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 15:06 BST (UK) »
Patrick too looks to have led a very successful life. By 1941 he was President of Shell in Canada. Nice story of him and green issues (yep, 1941!) below.

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Re: Peter and Donald Fowlie -- no trace of birth?
« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 15:11 BST (UK) »
Patrick's marriage notice from Toronto in 1948 below. I am sorry to say I am not seeing the original source citation on these newspaper clips so can't add them here for you.

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Re: Peter and Donald Fowlie -- no trace of birth?
« Reply #20 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 15:18 BST (UK) »
Yes, all the stuff my Canadian RootsChatters came up with was about his role with Shell, although they were disappointed not to find anything personal in obituaries, etc. The Fowlies were a high-achieving family!
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Re: Peter and Donald Fowlie -- no trace of birth?
« Reply #21 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 15:33 BST (UK) »
They certainly were  ;) Just adding link to Patrick's post here with lots of additional details www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=705809.0

Back to father Dr Peter, he has a road called after him back in Singapore https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/pictures/Details/87cd5ed7-5e5d-4a8d-8231-2079b76fa6fd

From this link, it seems that Dr Peter was also a champion golfer!

Added: And Fowlie Primary School https://tanjongkatongpri.moe.edu.sg/about-us/school-history

Dr Fowlie certainly left his mark  ::)

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Re: Peter and Donald Fowlie -- no trace of birth?
« Reply #22 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 15:40 BST (UK) »
Yes indeed Monica, that was my thread originally as you will have seen. Midge and her husband did send me scans of the golfing book Peter Fowlie wrote! There are a lot of Fowlies out there but this particular branch, of course, came to an end quite quickly. Peter's older brother Gavin Jnr emigrated to Canada, took part in the Klondike gold rush and became a significant figure in the Yukon. Their other two brothers Donald and Colin seem to have died young.
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Re: Peter and Donald Fowlie -- no trace of birth?
« Reply #23 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 16:01 BST (UK) »
Donald did indeed die young:

Donald FOWLIE
Age 11
Mother's maiden name MACKAY
1875
088/ 213
Stornoway

Do you mean a son John rather than Colin? Can't see a Colin in the household for them. John, aged 9, is on the 1871 census but last one with the family.

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Re: Peter and Donald Fowlie -- no trace of birth?
« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 16:45 BST (UK) »
Sorry, momentary slip -- misread Gavin!
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Re: Peter and Donald Fowlie -- no trace of birth?
« Reply #25 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 17:05 BST (UK) »
I can't really see anything for John Fowlie after 1871.

The only possibility I thought, from 1911 www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWFH-TJH

We haven't any document ref to the middle name of Sellar though. This John gave birth place as Kirkton Sutherland in 1911, however, there are no births showing for a John Fo*lie anywhere in Sutherland around 1862 +-, except for John in Reay Caithness, son of Gavin and Christina. So who knows really!

There is a death for a 49 yr old John S Fowlie in West Ham, Essex in 1st Qrt 1912 (vol. 4a/pg. 160).

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Re: Peter and Donald Fowlie -- no trace of birth?
« Reply #26 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 17:08 BST (UK) »
Yes, the Reay birth is this John. Gavin was working there for some years before moving to Stornaway. Interesting about the John died 1912 in Essex!! Thank you.
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