When Sarah Johnston was born about 1864, in Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, her father, Robert Osborne Johnston, was 43 and her mother, Miranda Shaver, was 33. She married Roswell George John Allen Relyea on 1 January 1884, in Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 16 December 1936, in Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 73, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada.
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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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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.
Scottish: habitational name, deriving in most cases from the place so called in Annandale, in Dumfriesshire. This is derived from the genitive case of the personal name John + + Middle English ton ‘town, village, settlement’ (Old English tūn). There are other places in Scotland so called, including the city of Perth, which used to be known as Saint John's Toun, and some of these may also be sources of the surname.
English: habitational name from Johnson Hall (Staffordshire), recorded as Johannestonc. 1233 and Joneston in 1314. The placename means ‘John's settlement’, from the genitive case of the Middle English personal name Johan, Jon (see John ) + Middle English ton ‘town, village, settlement’.
History: As far as can be ascertained, most Scottish bearers of this surname are descendants of John, probably a Norman baron from England, who held lands at Johnstone in Annandale from the Bruce family in the late 12th century. His son Gilbert was the first to take the surname Johnstone and their descendants later held the earldom of Annandale.
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