Brief Life History of Peter Gingrich
When Peter Gingrich Martin was born on 7 August 1845, in Woolwich Township, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, his father, Joseph Good Martin, was 45 and his mother, Elizabeth Hackman Gingrich, was 36. He married Magalena Bauman on 4 April 1875, in Woolwich Township, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Waterloo North, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 30 July 1916, in Elmira, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 70, and was buried in North Woolwich Mennonite Meeting House Cemetery, Floradale, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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- Peter Martin, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Peter Martin, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
- Peter Martin in entry for Joseph Martin and Elizabeth Wideman, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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1867 · Ontario Founded
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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Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.
English: variant of Marton .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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