Mary E Hughes

Brief Life History of Mary E

When Mary E Hughes was born on 17 January 1857, in Ontario, Canada, her father, John Hughes, was 27 and her mother, Bridget Farrell, was 23. She married Donald Angus Crites on 7 January 1883, in Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada in 1931. She died in 1939, in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 82, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada.

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Family Time Line

Donald Angus Crites
1861–1938
Mary E Hughes
1857–1939
Marriage: 7 January 1883
Eva Mabel Crites
1884–1957
Mary Ethel Crites
1889–
Clinton Crites
1891–1891
Ileen Crites
1892–1980
Clarence Arnold Crites
1896–1968
Ruby May Crites
1898–
Harold Leslie Crites
1900–1968
Wallace Crites
1912–1975
Irwin Crites
1918–

Sources (21)

  • Mary Ellen Critan, "Canada, Census, 1931"
  • Mary Hughes, "Canada, Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
  • Margaret Hughes, "Canada, Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"

World Events (6)

1867 · Ontario Founded

On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.

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1883 · Mining Boom

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.

Name Meaning

English and Welsh: variant of Hugh with genitival or excrescent -s.

Irish and Scottish: adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic surnames based on the personal name Aodh ‘fire’, for example Ó hAodha, Mac Aodha; see McCoy and compare McHugh .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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