When Mary Jane Triphena Graves was born on 9 February 1834, in Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Phineas W Graves, was 28 and her mother, Eliza Jane Johnson, was 23. She married James Patterson Foster on 10 March 1853, in Paradise, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Clarence, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada for about 10 years and Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1911. She died in 1912, in Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 78, and was buried in Fundy View Cemetery, Port Lorne, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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British Columbia joins the confederation.
The Silver Dart was the first recorded flight in Canada. It took off from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, on February 23, 1909, and was piloted by John Alexander Douglas McCurdy.
English (northern and eastern England): variant of Grave , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: alternatively, a variant of Greaves or Grieves .
Altered form of German Greff , with the addition of excrescent -s, a common feature of Americanized surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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