Brief Life History of Maria
When Maria McCreight was born on 7 January 1841, in Cherrywood, Pickering, Ontario, Ontario, Canada, her father, James McCreight, was 27 and her mother, Mary Ann Brown, was 22. She married William Armstrong on 18 September 1866. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1871. She died on 23 October 1880, at the age of 39, and was buried in Grace Anglican Church Cemetery, Markham, York, Ontario, Canada.
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- Maria Armstrong, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Maria McCreight, "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"
- Armstrong, "Find A Grave Index"
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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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Scottish and Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Neachtain. See McNaughton .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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