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About Descendants of John Sabiston and Margaret Folster
******Please be advised that George Sabiston passed away on November 24, 2019. This site will not be maintained and will be taken down if that's possible in the near future. There will not be payment for the renewal so seems likely.

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Story By Sue Snow (a Sabiston Descendant)
 My grandfather told me that there is a cliff near Birsay or Birsay Castle, in the Orkney Islands, named Cum le Coy (Cumlaquoy). It means "Man from the sea" My spelling may be off but I've seen it on a map. The story he told was passed down through generations. They say a man was seen in rough waters and in danger of drowning or being dashed on the rocky cliffs. My family went out and rescued him. He spoke Spanish and they only spoke Gaelic. They called him Cum le Coy Sabiston (they weren't able to pronounce or spell Sebastian in their language.) The name has been passed down through our family along with the story and the cliff was named after the event. This is my cousin's middle name. My family were servants at this castle and had a farm nearby. The man was supposed to be from the Armada, which I thought was 1588. He stayed and married and evidently spawned a large family that all Sabiston's have come from. Cumlaquoy is a house about 700 meters from the cliffs in Marwick, Birsay, Orkney.

SABISTON: bef 1611 - Scottish: Habitational name from the Udal Land of SABISTANE in Birsay  parish, Orkney, Scotland. See Udal Land in Orkney under "Useful Links" to the right-->-->-->-->

OTHER SPELLING: <> Sibiston: bef 1619, Sibistane: bef 1647, Sibistan: bef 1647, Sabestonne: bef 
1655, Sabistane: bef 1655, Sibistone: bef 1655, Sabeston: bef 1657, Sabist: bef 1661, Sabistonne: 
bef 1671, Sabystone: bef 1682, Sabuston: bef 1682, Sabestone: bef 1684, Sabustone: bef 1685, 
Sebastin: bef 1689, Sebaston: bef 1691, Saibistonne: bef 1697, Saibistown: bef 1701, Sabistown: 
bef 1701, Sabistine: bef 1702, Sabistin: bef 1702, Sebistone: bef 1713, Sebeston: bef 1726, 
Sabistoun: bef 1727, Sybistone: bef 1731, Sybiston: bef 1732, Saibiston: bef 1734, Sibistoun: 
bef 1738, "SEBASTIAN": bef 1746, Sabaston: bef 1747, Sabistone: bef 1749, Sabieston: bef 1773, 
Shebeston: bef 1787, Sebiston: bef 1788, Sibbiston: bef 1802, Sebeston: bef 1803, Sybestan: bef 
1814, Sebbiston: bef 1823, Sabbeston: bef 1827, Sabistan: bef 1837.

FOLSTER: Mid 1400's - Scottish: The origin of the Folster name is believed to be from the farm  called Folsetter in the parish of Birsay on the Main island of Orkney. The name first appears in  the census records in the mid 1400's. The original name,  Folsetter, would have been pronounced in  Orkney as Fols'tter, thus accounting for the modern spelling. You may also see variations such as  Fulsetter and Fulster. In North America, you will invariably see it as Folster. If you check the Orkney census reports, you will find that no Folsters ever inhabited the farm  called Folsetter. Instead it was mostly inhabited by the Spence family. The common theory about  the origin of the name is that those who left the farm would have taken the name of that place to  differentiate themselves from all the other Spences of Scotland.  (Spence is after all, a very  common Scottish name). For example, a man named George who moved away from the Folsetter farm  might have called himself George of Folsetter, as was the common practice in the 1400's in Europe.

OTHER SPELLING: <> Folsuter: bef 1647, Folsitter: bef 1655, Fulsiter: bef 1658, Fulsatter: bef 
1669, Fulsetter: bef 1671, Fulseter: bef 1687, Folseter: bef 1695, Folsetter: bef 1695, Folciter: 
bef 1730, Folsiter: bef 1731, Folsater: bef 1747. Folster was used quite often between 1781 - 1854.

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My name is Edwin "George" Sabiston and I am the webmaster of this site. Please  contact me (link above) if you see any errors, have any pictures you would  like to add or have any comments. If you are a descendant of this Sabiston Family  Tree, please contact me for information on how to be added.  "Kishchee tey mo'yawn aen li Michif wi'yawn" (Proud to be Metis)

Our beginning;
 John Sabiston was born on October 14, 1843 (Sep 26, 1844?) in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland.   He immigrated to Manitoba, Canada at the age of 17 - 19 after signing an agreement in the  Parish of Walls February 20, 1862 with the "Governor and Company of Adventures of  England", trading into Hudson's Bay, by Edward Clomton residing in Stromness, their  agent.
 John landed at York Factory on the Hudson's Bay on the ship "Prince of Wales  (II)", where he took a York Boat to Red River Settlement and started work  for the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Garry near Lockport. John worked as a laborer in York Factory and Athabasca until 1867 when he  retired. On retirement from the HBC, John was given 25 acres of land at Red  River Settlement which he farmed. York Factory was the Hudson's Bay Post on  the Hudson's Bay. Athabasca could have been anywhere between York Factory and  the MacKenzie River in the Northwest Territories.
 John later married Margaret Folster, born January 21, 1850 in Little Britain,  on February 19th, 1868 after he retired from the service of the Hudson's Bay  Company. The marriage was in St. Andrew's Church known as the "Old Stone  Church". St. Andrew's Church is only a couple miles from Lower Fort Garry on  the north end of Winnipeg.
 There in "Little Britain", they settled on a farm approximately two miles from  Lockport alongside the Red River. It was a community of Scots/Half-breed  people, most were connected to the Hudson"s Bay Company in some way. From this  marriage there were thirteen children, seven boys and six girls. (1)Margaret, (2)John Henry, (3)James William, (4)Ellen, (5)Henry George, (6)Alexander  Francis Thomas "Tom", (7)Annabella, (8)Wilhemina "Lena", (9)Elizabeth Jane, (10)Emma,  (11)John "Jack" Erastus Locheed, (12)Charles "Charlie" Archibald and (13)Robert. Five boys, Margaret and John Sabiston Sr. moved to Saskatchewan to take up  homesteads in the Wishart-Bankend area about 1906. Soon after John Sr. arrived,  he homesteaded on N.E. Sec 10, Township 30, Range 14, Meridian W2 and he became  the first postmaster of the Birch Creek Post Office. He hauled the mail by team from  Foam Lake.
 John died in 1918 at the age of 76 at Bankend, Saskatchewan and Margaret moved back  to Winnipeg, Manitoba and then to Kenora, Ontario to live with her daughter  Wilhemina "Lena" and son-in-law John Henry Folster and family. Margaret died March  31, 1928 at the age of 77 at Ontario Hospital Mimico, New Toronto (institution) where  she resided for 8 Months until her death. 
 Margaret is buried at Park Lawn Cemetery, Etobicoke, Ontario and John is buried at  Birch Creek Cemetery, Bankend, Saskatchewan and they are in the Saskatchewan history  book "Emeralds Past in Prose, Poetry and Pictures".
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************ WE ARE SAD TO ANNOUNCE THE DEATH OF OUR AUNT `EMMA JOAN BARCIER nee: SABISTON` ON MARCH 26, 2019 IN WINNIPEG, MANITOBA.. ************

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