Amanda Phoebe Eastman

Brief Life History of Amanda Phoebe

When Amanda Phoebe Eastman was born on 3 October 1821, in Cornwall, Stormont, Canada West, British North America, her father, William Benjamin Eastman, was 62 and her mother, Mary Waterbury, was 35. She married Robert Osborne Johnston on 4 April 1843, in Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 28 January 1853, in Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Canada West, British North America, at the age of 31, and was buried in Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Canada West, British North America.

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Family Time Line

Robert Osborne Johnston
1822–1896
Amanda Phoebe Eastman
1821–1853
Marriage: 4 April 1843
Mary Diadema Johnston
1843–1848
Alfred Johnston
1850–1928
Benjamin Adam Johnston
1845–1909
Agnes Louisa Johnston
1847–1938
Amanda Diadema Johnston
1852–1883

Sources (8)

  • Amanda Eastman, "Ontario, Marriages, 1800-1910"
  • Amanda Mary Eastman Johnston, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Amanda in entry for Benjn Johnston and Harriet Sreetonija, "Canada, Ontario County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"

Name Meaning

English: from the Middle English personal name Estmund (Old English Ēastmund, from ēast ‘east’ + mund ‘protection’). See also Esmond .

English: occasionally a variant of Heasman, a topographic name for a dweller ‘(in the) brushwood’, from Old English hǣse ‘brushwood’ + mann (compare Hayes 3).

Americanized form (translation into English) of Swedish Östman (see Ostman ) and North German Ostmann or Östmann (see Oestmann ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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