John Withers Uren

Male1866–7 December 1952

Brief Life History of John Withers

When John Withers Uren was born in 1866, in Oxford, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Withers Uren III, was 34 and his mother, Isabella Lowes, was 35. He lived in North Oxford Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died on 7 December 1952, in Robertsdale, Baldwin, Alabama, United States, at the age of 86.

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Family Time Line

John Withers Uren III
1832–1867
Isabella Lowes
1831–1902
George Alfred Uren
1857–1927
Charles Albert Uren
1862–1877
John Withers Uren
1866–1952

Sources (3)

  • John Uren in household of George A. Uren, "Canada Census, 1881"
  • John Uren, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
  • John Uran in household of Isabella Uran, "Canada Census, 1871"

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World Events (8)

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

Age 0

The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.

1867 · Ontario Founded

Age 1

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.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

Age 24

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

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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