Brief Life History of Margaret Janet
When Margaret Janet Hood was born in 1900, in United States, her father, James Hood, was 25 and her mother, Fannie Mattheson Eaglesham, was 22. She married Herschel Roscoe Parr in 1928. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Alberta, Canada in 1916 and Camrose County, Alberta, Canada for about 5 years. She died on 6 October 2001, at the age of 101, and was buried in Castor, County of Paintearth No. 18, Alberta, Canada.
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- Margaret Parr, "Canada Census, 1931"
- Margaret Janet Parr, "Find A Grave Index"
- Margaret Hood in household of James Hood, "Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1926"
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1905
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1927
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Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English hod, hood, hodde ‘hood’, either for someone who wore a hood (like the medieval folk hero Robin Hood) or who made and sold hoods. In Kent and Sussex the name may sometimes have been confused with Hoad .
English: from the Middle English personal name Hod(e), a variant of Ode or Odd with prosthetic H-; see Ott and Oates and compare Hodson 2.
English and Scottish: variant of Hudd, from the Middle English personal name Hudde, Hutte, which could represent Old English Hud(d)a or its ancient Germanic equivalent Hud(d)o, but is more likely from Anglo-Norman French Hud(de), a pet form of Hugh.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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