Brief Life History of William
When William Mcconnell Jr was born in December 1849, in Lansdowne, Leeds and the Thousand Islands, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, his father, William McConnell, was 45 and his mother, Mary Clendenning, was 32. He married Charlotte Ann Warren on 2 October 1871, in Lansdowne, Leeds and the Thousand Islands, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Lansdowne, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1891 and Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 20 March 1930, in Elizabethtown, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 80, and was buried in Lansdowne, Leeds and the Thousand Islands, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
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- Wm Mcconnel, "Ontario Census, 1861"
- William Mcconnell, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- William Mcconnell, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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World Events (4)
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.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
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.
Name Meaning
Irish (northern) and Scottish (southwestern): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dhomhnaill ‘son of Domhnall’, from the lenited pronunciation of the name. See McDonald . O'Connell is from a different personal name. Compare McConnon .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Shop
This is the original Shop that William McConnell jr. built in Lansdowne when he first started the Lumber and Coal company. He at first leased from a company west of Kingston Ontario and later he decid …
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