When John A. Eastman was born about 20 April 1786, in Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Benjamin Eastman, was 26 and his mother, Hannah Sherman, was 22. He married Elizabeth Glassford on 28 September 1804, in Cornwall Township, Stormont, Upper Canada, British North America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Huntley, Carleton, Ontario, Canada in 1851 and Carleton, Ontario, Canada in 1851. He died on 6 November 1875, in North Gower, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 89, and was buried in North Gower Union Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Estmund (Old English Ēastmund, from ēast ‘east’ + mund ‘protection’). See also Esmond .
English: occasionally a variant of Heasman, a topographic name for a dweller ‘(in the) brushwood’, from Old English hǣse ‘brushwood’ + mann (compare Hayes 3).
Americanized form (translation into English) of Swedish Östman (see Ostman ) and North German Ostmann or Östmann (see Oestmann ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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