Brief Life History of Barbara
When Barbara Paul was born on 29 February 1828, in Ramsay Township, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, her father, Andrew Paul, was 39 and her mother, Euphemia Yuill, was 24. She married Stewart Houston about 1849, in Ramsay Township, Lanark, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died about 1903, at the age of 76.
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- Barbra Housten in household of John Housten, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Barbara Paul, "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"
- Barbary Paul in entry for Andrew Houston and Hannah Galbraith, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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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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1886 · First Workmen's Comp Act
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
Name Meaning
English, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, West Indian (mainly Haiti, also e.g. Saint Lucia), and African (mainly Nigeria and Tanzania): from the personal name Paul (from Latin Paulus ‘small’), which has always been popular in Christendom. It was the name adopted by the Pharisee Saul of Tarsus after his conversion to Christianity on the road to Damascus in about AD 34. He was a most energetic missionary to the Gentiles in the Roman Empire, and played a very significant role in establishing Christianity as a major world religion. The name was borne also by numerous other early Christian saints. It is also occasionally borne by Jews; the reasons for this are not clear. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages and their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Greek Pavlis , Slovenian Pavel and Pavlič (see Pavlic ), Polish Paweł (see Pawel ) and Pawlicki , Assyrian/Chaldean Polous and Polus . In France, this surname is most common in Brittany (see 2 below).
Breton (mainly Finistère): from a Frenchified form of the personal name Paol, Breton form of Paul .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Phóil ‘son of Paul’. Compare McFall .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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