When Sarah Jane Titmus was born on 24 November 1836, in Dundas, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, her father, Simeon Titmous, was 34 and her mother, Sarah Jackson, was 32. She married James William Dunn on 16 February 1854, in Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Beverley, York, Home, Upper Canada, British North America in 1881. She died on 17 March 1899, in Beverly, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 62, and was buried in Westover, Hamilton, 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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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.
English (Hertfordshire): variant of Titchmarsh, a habitational name from Titchmarsh in Northamptonshire. The placename derives from the Old English personal name Ticcea + Old English mersc ‘marsh’. The surname became associated by folk etymology with the word titmouse (Middle English titmose), denoting a small songbird. There may have been some confusion with Tidmarsh .
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