Brief Life History of John Withers
When John Withers Uren III was born in 1832, in Madron, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Uren Jr., was 33 and his mother, Mary Ann Withers, was 27. He married Isabella Lowes about 1852, in Oxford, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Blandford, Oxford, Canada West, British Colonial America in 1851 and North Oxford Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1861. He died on 2 April 1867, in West Oxford Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 35, and was buried in North Oxford Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada.
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Sources (6)
- John Uren, "Canada, Ontario Census, 1861"
- Legacy NFS Source: John Uren III - Government record: Census record: birth: 1830; England, United Kingdom
- John Uren, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1832–1867 Male
1831–1902 Female
Children (3)
1857–1927 Male
1862–1877 Male
1866–1952 Male
Parents and Siblings
1799–1891 Male
1805–1867 Female
Siblings (10)
1832–1867 Male
1833–1898 Female
1835–1841 Male
1838–1876 Female
1841–1934 Male
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World Events (4)
1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor
Age 1
1843
Age 11
1854 · The Crimean War
Age 22
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin, mostly in Cornwall): from the Old French personal name Ev(e)rin, Eurin, either a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Ever- (from the Germanic word for ‘boar’), such as Everard and Everwin (see Erwin ), or an alternative pronunciation of Everwin as /ju:rin/. In Cornwall this name would easily have been confused with the Breton personal name and surname in 2 below.
Cornish (of Breton origin) and Welsh: from the Breton and Welsh personal name Ur(i)en (ultimately from British Celtic ōrbo- perhaps ‘orphan, heir’ + gen- ‘born’). There is evidence for use of the Breton personal name in at least one Anglo-Norman family in Cheshire but in Cornwall it belonged initially, at least, to 16th-century Breton migrants, some of whom also bore it as a surname.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, so named from the definite singular form of ur, from Old Norse urth ‘scree, rock-strewn slope’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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