Brief Life History of Lalia Burma
When Lalia Burma Chase was born on 17 September 1850, in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada, her father, Chipman Chase, was 30 and her mother, Zilpha Snowdon, was 26. She married Oliver M. Wry on 17 January 1871, in Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 25 February 1928, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, British Colonial America, at the age of 77, and was buried in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
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- Lalia Wry in household of Hannah Wry, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Delia Chase, "New Brunswick Provincial Marriages 1789-1950"
- Lalia Burpee Wry, "Nova Scotia Deaths, 1890-1955"
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1867 · British North America Act
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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British Columbia joins the confederation.
Name Meaning
English (southern): metonymic occupational name for a huntsman, or perhaps a nickname for an exceptionally skilled huntsman, from Middle English chase ‘hunt’ (Old French chasse, from chasser ‘to hunt’, Latin captare).
History: Thomas Chase came to MA from Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, in the 1640s, and had many prominent descendants. Samuel Chase, born in Somerset County, MD, in 1741, was one of the first members of the US Supreme Court; Philander Chase, born in Cornish, NH, in 1741 was a prominent Episcopal clergyman, and his nephew Salmon Portland Chase (1808–73), also born in Cornish, was governor of OH, a US senator, and secretary of the US Treasury during the Civil War.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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