Brief Life History of Thomas William
Thomas William York was born on 2 February 1882, in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom. He married Daisy Maud Louise Brown on 25 December 1906, in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. In 1911, at the age of 29, his occupation is listed as chemists porter. He died in May 1962, at the age of 80, and was buried in St. Peter's Cemetery, London, Ontario, Canada.
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- Thos W York in household of John Geo Draper, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Thomas William York, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Thomas William York, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
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1883 · Mining Boom
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.
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
1904 · The Entente Cordiale
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of York in northern England. The surname is now widespread throughout England. Originally, the city bore the Latin name Eburacum, which is probably from a Brittonic name meaning ‘yew-tree place’. This was altered by folk etymology to Old English Eoforwīc (from the elements eofor ‘wild boar’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’). This name was taken over by Scandinavian settlers, who altered it back to opacity in the form Jórvík or Jórk (English York, which became finally settled as the placename in the 13th century). The surname has also been adopted by Jews as an Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
In some cases also an American shortened and altered form of the East Slavic patronymic Yurkovich or its Croatian, Slovak, or Slovenian variants. Compare Yurk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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