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=The Loder Family of Random Island{{efn|name=fn1}}=
The first "Loader" (later shortened to "Loder") to live on greater Random Island{{efn|name=fn2}} was Silas Loader ("Silas-b1819"{{efn|name=fn3}}) who was born in Old Perlican in 1819<ref name=Foot01/>.  He married Rachel Cooper of [[Ireland's Eye]] in August 1845 in the Old Perlican Methodist Church and then moved across the Bay to settle in her home community of Ireland's Eye<ref name=Foot02/> [see [[ Cooper|Cooper Family]]].  Two of Silas-b1819 and Rachel's children later moved to Random Island proper where they raised families - their oldest daughter (Ann) married and moved to [[Thoroughfare]] only a kilometer or so across the water from the island of Ireland's Eye, and their oldest son (John-b1850) moved to [[Snook's Harbour]] about 30 km to the west up Smith Sound<ref name=Foot03/>.  Their youngest son James-b1860 raised his family in the community of Ireland's Eye, and passed away at his son's home in Thoroughfare<ref name=Foot02/>.

==Pre Random Island==
The Random Island Loders' earliest (Loder) ancestor to live in Newfoundland was Celas Loader (or, "Silas-b1766") who, in the late 1700s, went from Sturminster Newton in Dorset England to Harbour Grace.  Celas was baptized in Lydlinch Dorset in 1766, as an "illegitimate" son of Mary Loder<ref name=Foot04/>.  He bought land in Bay de Verde in 1800<ref name=Foot05/>, and married Mary Day of there in the Anglican Church in September 1810.  It appears that they had at least 4 children<ref name=Foot01/><ref name=Foot06/><ref name=Foot07/>:
* Elizabeth who was born in 1804 in Bay De Verde, baptized in the Anglican Church in 1805, and married Joseph Bursey in Old Perlican in 1822.  They had 8 children there before Elizabeth died in 1842.
* James ("James-b1807") who was born ca{{efn|name=fn4}} 1807, first married Elizabeth Gregory in 1828 in the Methodist Church in Old Perlican, and then married Ann Bursey in 1842.  James had at least 5 children - 3 with Elizabeth and at least 2 with Ann - while living in Hant's Harbour.  He died there in 1869.
* Jane who was born in 1813 in Bay de Verde, baptized in the Anglican Church in 1813, and married Thomas Mills in 1834 in Old Perlican.  They had at least 2 children there before Jane died in 1842. 
* Silas-b1819 who was baptized in the Methodist Church in Old Perlican in 1819, and married Rachel Cooper of Ireland's Eye in 1845. They settled in Ireland's Eye where they had 8 children [also see [[ Cooper|Cooper Family]]].
It appears from the above marriage and baptismal locations that Silas-b1766 and Mary had at least 2 children before marrying in 1810, and that they moved from Bay de Verde (where they were associated with the Anglican Church) to Old Pelican (where they associated with the Methodist Church) sometime between 1813 and 1819.  It seems most likely that their son Silas-b1819 lived in Old Perlican until he married and moved to IE.  But there is some uncertainty about this since death and burial information for his parents has not been found.

It should also be noted that a baptismal record for James-b1807 has not been found (baptismal records from the area are spotty between 1798 and 1814).  His birth year and lineage given above have been inferred from his death record, similar first names among his siblings and his children, and DNA connections{{efn|name=fn5}} among his and Silas-b1819's descendants. 
 
It may be that Silas-b1766 and Mary had two other children for whom there are no baptismal records:
* William (Loader) of Carbonear (near Harbour Grace in Conception Bay) who married Eliza Burnell of there in the Harbour Grace Anglican Church in 1819, was a witness to over a dozen weddings in that church between 1827 and 1833, and was listed as living in Carbonear in 1835<ref name=Foot01/>; and 
* Grace (Loader) who married William Moores in the same church in Carbonear in 1829 with William Loader as a witness<ref name=Foot01/>.

However. no information on the parents or descendants of William or Grace has been found, nor on any connections to the Loaders of New Perlican, beyond Silas-b1766's first landing place in Newfoundland being Harbour Grace which is between Carbonear (where William and Grace lived) and Bay de Verde (where Silas-1766 bought land).  It may alternatively be that William and Grace are no closer than cousins of Silas-1819 and his siblings who lived in Trinity Bay.

==Random Island Families==
===First Generation===
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Silas-b1819 was the first of the Loder Family to live in the Random Island area{{efn|name=fn2}}.  His wife Rachel was one of at least 8 children of Edward and Ann Cooper of Ireland's Eye [see [[ Cooper|Cooper Family]]].  Silas and Rachel continued to live in the community of Ireland's Eye until their deaths in 1904 and 1910, respectively.  We refer to them as the "First Generation" of the Random Island Loder Family.

Naval records<ref name=Foot08/><ref name=Foot09/> indicate that Silas was the registered owner of the 17-ton schooner 'Four Brothers' from the time of its construction in Smith Sound in 1889 until 1906 (2 years after his death).  This is consistent with family lore that his youngest son James-b1860 captained a schooner starting at an early age<ref name=Foot02/> (also see below).  The 2 framed photos on the right showing Silas-b1819 in 2 different poses in 1895 were probably taken on the deck of the Four Brothers.
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===Second and Third Generations===
Two of Silas-b1819 and Rachel’s children (Ann, John-b1850) married and settled on Random Island proper, one son (James-b1860) settled in Ireland's Eye, one daughter (Elizabeth) married and settled on the other side of Smith Sound, two sons (Silas-b-1853 and William) died as young men, and one daughter (Rachel) died as a child<ref name=Foot01/><ref name=Foot02/><ref name=Foot07/>.

In the order of their births, the children (the "Second Generation", probably all born in the tiny community of Ireland's Eye) were:
* Ann who was born in 1848, married Nathaniel Mills of Thoroughfare in 1870 and settled in Thoroughfare (on the northeastern tip of Random Island). They had at least 7 children [see below].
* John-b1850{{efn|name=fn6}}  who married Jane Tilley Smith of [[Elliott's Cove]] (but formerly of Hant's Harbour [see [[ Smith|Smith Family]]]) in 1873, and eventually settled in Snook's Harbour.  They had 8 children – 2 born in Ireland's Eye where they initially lived, and the others born in Snook's Harbour [see below].
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* Silas-b1852 who died in a tragic sealing accident off Ireland's Eye in March 1875<ref name=Foot02/>.  He and his 3 brothers were hunting among the ice floes off Ireland's Eye when a captured seal caused their boat to overturn.  His brothers were able to cling to the overturned boat but they were not able to rescue Silas.  An article on the accident has been re-published<ref name=Foot02/>.
* Elizabeth who was born in 1856 and, in 1882, married Alexander Gardner of British Harbour (on the northern side of Smith Sound, across from Ireland's Eye) where they settled and had at least 7 children [see below].
* William who was born in 1858 and died in 1877, from poor health after being in the cold water for a couple of hours during the 1875 sealing accident in which his brother Silas drowned.
* James-b1860 who married Caroline Eveligh of Trinity in 1881, and settled in Ireland's Ete where they raised 4 children [see below].
* Rachel who was born in 1867 and died as a child in 1877.

The following subsections provide further information on the families of Silas-b1819 and Rachel’s children who lived in the Random Island area.  Information is drawn from the various indicated sources and research by the author{{efn|name=fn1}}.
====Ann (nee Loder) Mills and Family====
Ann Loder of Ireland's Eye and Nathaniel Mills of Thoroughfare were married in the Church of England in Trinity in November 1870, with Thomas Cooper and Susannah Mills as witnesses.  They settled in Thoroughfare where they had the following children (members of the "Third Generation") [see later for these children's spouses and children]:
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* George (1870-1906),
* Jessie Elizabeth (1873-1918),
* Silas William (1875-1955),
* James (1878-1894),
* Walter Clarence (1879-1932),
* Eliza Jane (1883-1910), and
* Annie Maud (1885-1926).
Nathaniel was born in Thoroughfare in 1846.  His parents, George Thomas Mills (1809-1894) from England and Rachel Ivany (1817-1884) from English Harbour, were the first permanent settlers in Thoroughfare, in the 1840s<ref name=Foot04/><ref name=Foot07/>.  Nathaniel passed away in 1901 and Ann in 1923, both in Thoroughfare<ref name=Foot01/>.
====John Loder and Family====
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John-b1850 married Jane Tilley Smith, daughter of Thomas and Martha (nee Tilley) Smith, in 1873 in New Bonaventure<ref name=Foot01/>.  They lived in Ireland's Eye, where their first two children were born, until 1876 or 1877 when they moved further inland in Smith Sound to become the first settlers in Snook’s Harbour proper.

Jane had moved to Elliot's Cove, about 3 km from Snook's Harbour on the opposite side of Random Island, with her family in the 1860s.  Her brother William Smith moved to [[Apsey Brook]], down the shore about 2 km from Snook's Harbour in the 1870s, such that the Random Island Smith Family by this time had established stake in two locations on the northern side of the island not far from the family base in Elliott's Cove.  Some years later, Jane and William's youngest brother Aaron started a brick-making business on the island's northern side near Souley's Brook, about 2 km around the shore from Snook’s Harbour<ref name=Foot03/>.  The Loder family in Snook's Harbour was thus part of the extended Smith Family settlement on the western half of Random Island in the late 1800s<ref name=Foot10/> [also see [[Smith|Smith Family]]].

It is noteworthy that, over a century later after the collapse of the offshore "Northern Cod" stock in the late 1990s, scientists established that a sub-stock of cod was actually overwintering and spawning in Smith Sound<ref name=Foot11/>. This was in contrast to the bulk of the stock migrating 100s of kilometers offshore in winter to spawn over the continental slope.  Thus, cod abundance was probably a factor, in addition to forest resources and farmable land, in the movement of families like the Bakers, Coopers, Loders and Smiths from "headlands" (like Ireland's Eye and Heart's Ease Beach<ref name=Foot12/>) to communities along the protected shores of the western parts of Random and Smith Sounds.  Of further note, Jane and William's maternal grandfather was "Scholar" John Tilley who in the 1850s moved across Trinity Bay from Hant's Harbour to become a noted entrepreneur in Shoal Harbour<ref name=Foot13/>, on the mainland just across the water from the western end of Random Island.

John-b1850 and Jane’s children (members of the "Third Generation") were [see later (Third, Fourth and Fifth Generations) for more information on these children and their families]:

====Elizabeth (nee Loder) Gardner and Family====
====James Loder and Family====
===Third, Fourth and Fifth Generations===
====Children and Grandchildren of Ann and Nathaniel Mills====
=====George Mills and Family=====
=====Silas William Mills and Family=====
=====Walter Clarence Mills and Family=====
=====Eliza Jane Mills=====
=====Annie Maud (Mills) Duffett and Family=====
====Children and Grandchildren of John and Jane Loder====
=====William James Loder and Family=====
=====Silas Smith Loder=====
=====Elkanah Loder=====
=====Thomas Edwin Loder and Family=====
=====Lily Joyce (Loder) Randell and Family=====
=====Martha Isabella Loder=====
=====Rachel Loder=====
=====John Harold Loder=====
====Children and Grandchildren of James and Caroline Loder====
=====Ananias Loder=====
=====William John Loder and Family=====
=====Rachel Harriett (Hattie) Elizabeth (Loder) Mills and Family=====
=====Silas Loder and Family=====
==Notes==
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{{efn|name=fn1|Prepared by [[User:Jloder|John W Loder]] ([mailto:JohnWLoder@gmail.com JohnWLoder@gmail.com]) who is a son of Harold Loder and a great-great grandson of Silas-b1819 Loader of Ireland's Eye, with input from his sister Verna (Loder) Wroblewski and other relatives. John has done extensive research
on the Loder family, including communications with his 2nd, 3rd, and 4th cousins descended from Silas-b1819 and Rachel of Ireland's Eye.}}
{{efn|name=fn2|The term "greater Random Island" here refers to Random Island with Ireland's Eye and nearby small islands included, while the term "Random Island area" refers to greater Random Island and communities on the mainland sides of Smith and Random Sounds such as British Harbour.  This is in contrast to some works (e.g., the books by W.B.W. Martin (see references) which do not include Ireland's Eye as a part of Random Island.}}
{{efn|name=fn3|The notation "FirstName-bnnnn", such as "Silas-b1819", where "b" refers to born or baptized, and "nnnn" to a specific (or approximate) year, will be used to help keep track of some different members of the Loder Family, especially those with the first name of Silas.  "(bbbb-dddd)" refers to the year "bbbb" of birth or baptism and the year "dddd" of death.}}
{{efn|name=fn4|"ca" is a short form of "circa", meaning "around" a particular year but not necessarily that year exactly.}}
{{efn|name=fn5|DNA (short for "Deoxyribonucleic Acid") is an organic chemical which contains genetic information on an individual. The DNA connections noted here are based on analyses of the author’s DNA and that of others who are members of the genealogical association www.Ancestry.ca which indicate that they are related.}}
{{efn|name=fn6|John Loder's headstone indicates that he died on 20 August 1916 at age 65 yrs, 8 mos, suggesting that he was born in December 1850. On the other hand, baptism records from the Trinity Anglican Church1 indicate that he was born on 18 September 1851.  Thus, there is some uncertainty in his birth date (it seems likely that he was baptized on the later date).}}
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==References==
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<ref name=Foot01>{{cite web |url=http://ngb.chebucto.org/ |title=Newfoundland’s Grand Banks – Genealogical and historical data for the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador}}</ref>
<ref name=Foot02>{{cite book
 |last=Toope
 |first=Eugene
 |author-link=
 |year=1992
 |title=Eye Your Roots’ (and more), The Chronicles, Ireland’s Eye and Rise’s Harbour
 |url=
 |location=Grand Falls – Windsor
 |publisher=E and Eye Enterprises
 |pages=xi + 221pp.
}}</ref>
<ref name=Foot03>{{cite book
 |last=Martin
 |first=Wilfred B.W.
 |author-link=
 |year=1990
 |title=Random Island Pioneers
 |url=
 |location=St. John's
 |publisher=Creative Publishers
 |pages=268
}}</ref>
<ref name=Foot04>{{cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.ca/imageviewer/collections/2243/images/32435_239595-00419?pId=1747829 |title=Dorset England, Church of England Baptisms, … , 1538-1812}}</ref>
<ref name=Foot05>{{cite web |url=https://mha.mun.ca/mha/holdings/keith/index.php |title=Matthews Name Files" (MNF) in the Maritime History Archive (MHA)}}</ref>
<ref name=Foot06>{{cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.ca/family-tree/tree/65510934/family?cfpid=162123871768&fpid=162123871900&usePUBJs=true |title=Ancestry Genealogical, Family Trees & Family History Records" (https://www.ancestry.ca/) is a genealogical website with Family Trees based on records and input from its members.  It includes some Family Trees with inaccurate information and relations, such that they are not fully reliable.  The author’s Family Tree can be accessed at this link}}</ref>
<ref name=Foot07>{{cite web |url=https://www.therooms.ca/collections-research |title=Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador (PANL) where John W. Loder has examined paper copies of historical records that are not available on the internet}}</ref>
<ref name=Foot08>{{cite web |url=https://www.crewlist.org.uk/#top |title=Mercantile Navy List}}</ref>
<ref name=Foot09>{{cite web |url=https://ships.navalmarinearchive.com/ |title=Naval Marine Archive}}</ref>
}}
==Photo Credits==
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{{efn-lr|name=Cred01|Passed down to John W Loder via John-b1850 & descendants}}
{{efn-lr|name=Cred02|Passed down to Edwina Suley (& others) via James-b1860 & descendants}}
{{efn-lr|name=Cred03|Ancestry.ca via shelleygosse}}
{{efn-lr|name=Cred04|Ancestry.ca via Carole Ann Jordan Binder }}
{{efn-lr|name=Cred05|Provided by Nita (Gardner) Acker}}
{{efn-lr|name=Cred06|Ancestry.ca via AckerN }}
{{efn-lr|name=Cred07|Ancestry.ca via Karen Ivany}}
{{efn-lr|name=Cred08|Ancestry.ca via Shelley Gosse}}
{{efn-lr|name=Cred09|"The Memoirs of Signe (Mills) Green" 23}}
{{efn-lr|name=Cred10|Martin (1991) 21 via Marion Davis}}
{{efn-lr|name=Cred11|Provided by Elaine (Davis) Moores}}
{{efn-lr|name=Cred12|Martin (1994) 20}}
{{efn-lr|name=Cred13|Ancestry.ca via Paula Sheridan}}
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