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FLEWELLING, ERNEST PURDY (1846-1915)

FLEWELLING, ERNEST PURDY, teacher, and Anglican missionary, Hardwicke, 1879-81; b. Clifton, Kings Co., N.B., 1 Mar 1846, s/o William Puddington Flewelling and Esther Ann Merritt; m. 1877, Sara Jane Sinclair, sister of Edward Sinclair; d. Cranbrook, B.C., 26 Mar 1915.

The son of a surveyor general of New Brunswick, Ernest P. Flewelling was educated at the grammar school at King's College, Windsor, and was a teacher for a short time in Kings County, N.B. In 1871 he was living in Halifax and working as an insurance salesman. In 1875 he was head of the Halifax firm of Flewelling and Anderson, commission merchants. He left the field of business soon afterwards, and in 1876 was engaged as teacher of the advanced department of Harkins Academy in Newcastle. He was a competent and thorough teacher and a favorite of his pupils.

In 1878 Flewelling was ordained a deacon of the Anglican church, and in 1879 he resigned his position at Harkins to take charge of the mission of Hardwicke, of which the rector at Newcastle was then relieved. Besides ministering at the Church of St John the Evangelist at Bay du Vin he preached in the church at Escuminac and in the schoolhouse at Hardwicke Village. In June 1881 he had the cornerstone laid for a rectory at Bay du Vin.

Flewelling left Hardwicke in the fall of 1881 and was ordained a priest in December. For the next five years he was the rector at Dalhousie, N.B. In 1886 he transferred to Manitoba and in 1890 to British Columbia. At the time of his death he was rector of Christ Church at Cranbrook and rural dean of Kootenay. He and his wife, Sara J. Sinclair, who was also a teacher at Harkins prior to their marriage, had four children who lived to adulthood.

Sources

[b] Flewelling family data [m] church records [d] official records / Advance 30 Jun 1881, 29 Dec 1881; Advocate 3 Jan 1877, 30 Apr 1879, 14 May 1890; Francis research; Halifax city directories, 1871-72 and 1875-76


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