When James Woodley was born on 19 July 1848, in Belleville, Hastings, Ontario, Canada, his father, Thomas Woodley, was 31 and his mother, Susan Jane Carthew, was 30. He had at least 4 sons and 1 daughter with Maria Brooker. He lived in Hastings, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. His occupation is listed as mason in Belleville, Hastings, Ontario, Canada. He died on 12 December 1917, in Belleville, Hastings, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 69, and was buried in Belleville, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, France.
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During the second empire Emperor Napoleon III reigned. The country experienced economic growth and gained favorable foreign policies.
Bernadette Soubirous was a young woman that born in poverty on January 7, 1844 in Lourdes, France. She started having visions of a lady that would tell her to do different things such as drink from water that was under a rock. She was also instructed to tell priests to build a church. As time went on she was interrogated by the police and never denied what she saw. People come from all over to Lourdes, France.
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.
English: from Middle English wodeleie ‘woodland glade or clearing’ (Middle English wode ‘wood’ + leie ‘glade, clearing’, Old English wudu + lēah). The surname may be habitational, from Woodleigh (Devon), Woodley (Berkshire), or from any of various minor places so named, or it may be topographic, for a person who lived at or near a woodland clearing.
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