Ada Elizabeth Lumsden was born on 30 April 1862, in England, United Kingdom as the daughter of George Allen Malcolm and Maria Lumsden. She married Jacob Allen Malcolm on 1 January 1880, in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 17 October 1937, in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 75.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
Scottish: habitational name from a place in the parish ofColdingham, Berwickshire. The first element of the placename is ofuncertain origin, apparently the genitive case of a personal name; thesecond is probably Old English denu ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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