Brief Life History of Richard Melville
When Richard Melville Markell was born on 6 November 1841, in Osnabruck Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, his father, Jacob Markell, was 41 and his mother, Martha Wood, was 28. He married Elizabeth More Wereley on 19 January 1866, in Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Algoma, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 31 March 1920, in Osnabruck Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 78.
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- Wm Markel, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Richard M Markell, "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"
- Richard Melvin Markell, "Ontario Deaths,1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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1867 · Ontario Founded
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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1883 · Mining Boom
In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Markel 1 or Markl 1 and possibly also of Slovenian Markelj (see Markel 3). Compare Markle .
Jewish (American): variant of Markel 2.
English (Suffolk): perhaps a habitational name from the Middle English river name Markel, of uncertain etymology but recorded in Old English as Mearcella, Mercyl. The river was re-named in modern times as the River Brett, back-formed from Brettenham (Suffolk).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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