When Mary Elizabeth Fenton was born in June 1784, in Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Richard Fenton, was 38 and her mother, Elizabeth Stubbs, was 40. She married John T Wallace about 1810, in Centre Rawdon, East Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 14 October 1865, in Shubenacadie, East Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 81, and was buried in Wallace Cemetery, Mill Village, East Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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In 1861, Hants County was divided for court sessional purposes into two districts named East Hants and West Hants.
English: habitational name from any of various places, in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and Nottinghamshire, so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh, fen’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Irish: English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta or Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as Hunt (see Fee 1 and Finnerty ).
Scottish: habitational name from Fenton in East Lothian.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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