When Lucy Ann Harley was born on 12 November 1824, in Cornwall, Stormont, Upper Canada, British North America, her father, William Harley, was 40 and her mother, Christiana Snetsinger, was 39. She married John Samuel Wood on 2 November 1841, in Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 1 March 1904, in Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 79, and was buried in Long Sault, South Stormont Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada.
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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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English: habitational name from either of two places called Harley (Shropshire, Yorkshire). The Shropshire placename derives from Old English hær ‘rock, heap of stones’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The Yorkshire placename derives from Old English hara ‘hare’ or hær + hlāw ‘mound, hill’, later replaced by lēah.
Irish (Donegal): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarghaile ‘descendant of Earghal’, a variant of the personal name Fearghal without the initial F-. This name has also become Herley and Hurley . Compare Arrell and Harrell .
Scottish (Fife): habitational name from any of several places called Harlaw in Midlothian, Peeblesshire, and Berwickshire, named in Older Scots with hare ‘gray’ + law ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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