Brief Life History of Kenneth John
When Kenneth John Simpson was born on 24 April 1901, in Lanark, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Simpson, was 38 and his mother, Mary Minnie Maud Patterson, was 31. He married Henrietta Margaret White on 16 February 1923, in Ottawa, Ottawa-Carleton, Ontario, Canada. He died about 1981, in Canada, at the age of 81.
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- Kenneth Simpson in household of William Simpson, "Canada Census, 1911"
- Kenneth John Simpson, "Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
- Kenneth Simpson, "Canada, Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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World Events (5)
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
1934 · Dionne Quintuplets Born
Born on May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets were the first set of quintuplets to survive infancy. The five girls were born two months prematuare and months later were taken from their parents by the Red Cross. In the 1940s they were returned to their family.
1943 · Conservative Party Wins Ontario Election
George A. Drew was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 1943, they won the Ontario election.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m), Sime (see Sim ) + -son.
English: occasionally a variant of Sumsion with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant, a dialect feature of southwestern England.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson, all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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