When Matilda Alice Valley was born on 1 October 1864, in New Brunswick, Canada, her father, Stephen Earl Valley, was 39 and her mother, Ann Jane Doak, was 27. She married Nelson Heron Dodge on 13 September 1889, in Hallowell, Kennebec, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Easton, Aroostook, Maine, United States in 1900 and Richmond, Sagadahoc, Maine, United States in 1910. She died on 20 October 1951, in Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine, United States.
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The British North America Act or Constitution Act of 1867 caused three British colonies, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada to be united as one under the name Canada. Until this point New Brunswick had been the British crown colony.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(in the) valley’, from Middle English valeie.
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