Willliam's wife Margaret Dyer

DUNCAN LIDGATE � Carpenter

From Fala Parish, Haddington County, Duncan Lidgate was one of the four carpenters contracted by McKenzie for a five year term at Craigflower.¹ As a carpenter he received f30 per annum as compared to f17 paid labourers. Lidgate, his wife Helen and 3 children arrived at Ft. Victoria, Jan. 16, 1853, on the Norman Morison in company with others bound for Craigflower. It appears that Lidgate was older than most men employed by McKenzie, for in 1844 Lidgate was a widower with two daughters aged four and three.
Cranston Parish records show that on Aug. 16, 1844 he married Helen Dickson;² according to the reminiscences of Hugh McKenzie, Helen was a widow with one daughter, Margaret Dyer.³ Kenneth McKenzie's records show the ages of Lidgate's children as 12, 11 and 5 years in 1852. The Marriage Register for 1856 (Ft. Victoria) records the marriages of an Elizabeth Lidgate and a Margaret Dyer; one can only surmise that they were the two eldest of Lidgate's children.
Lidgate was listed as a joiner by trade in 1844.⁴ According to H. McKenzie, he was also a millwright and had been hired specifically to construct the grist mill at Craigflower. It appears that Lidgate was more literate than his fellows; some correspondence (see attached) exists indicating he had attained a degree of literacy, unlike his peers Caleb Pike and Wm. Hilly who signed their names: "X (his mark)."⁵ However, such refinements did not preclude intemperance and the scant references in Melrose's diary refer to Lidgate's drunkeness. A situation which sounds like a drunken spree but which also reflected antipathy towards McKenzie appears to have been initiated by Lidgate, as he was the only one to receive a fine.

In 1856, Lidgate's daughter, Elizabeth, married Caleb Pike, establish a farm 'near Victoria'.⁷ His step-daughter, Margaret, also married that year, one William Thompson. They farmed further north on the Saanich peninsula, founding the well known Thompson family of central Saanich.
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