When Margaret Child was born on 20 September 1761, in Gilesgate, Durham, England, United Kingdom, her father, Ralph Child, was 37 and her mother, Margaret Dobson, was 35. She married Ingram Ball on 5 July 1785, in Marylebone, London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 9 daughters. She died in 1803, in Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 42.
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Founded in 1785 as a haven for loyalists and named for Thomas Townshend, Baron Sydney (later Viscount Sydney; then colonial secretary), it served as the capital of Cape Breton Island until 1820, when the island was united with Nova Scotia. The population increased considerably during the early 19th century with the influx of large numbers of immigrants, especially from the Highlands of Scotland, and again in the early 20th century after a major steel plant was opened there. It was incorporated as a town in 1886 and as a city in 1904.
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English:
nickname from Middle English child ‘child, infant’ (Old English cild), in various possible applications. The word is found in Old English as a byname, and in Middle English as a widely used affectionate term of address. It was also used as a term of status for a young man of noble birth, although the exact meaning is not clear; in the 13th and 14th centuries it was a technical term used of a young noble awaiting elevation to the knighthood. In other cases it may have been applied as a byname to a youth considerably younger than his brothers or to one who was a minor on the death of his father.
in Kent, possibly a topographic name from Old English cielde ‘spring (water)’, a rare word derived from c(e)ald ‘cold’.
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