When Jane Harriet Horricks was born on 6 January 1840, in Drummond Township, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, her father, William Henry Horricks, was 50 and her mother, Christina Esther Forsyth, was 33. She married Abraham Thrasher on 30 September 1856, in Westmeath Township, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Perretton, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada in 1886 and Renfrew, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 5 April 1918, in Drummond Township, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 78, and was buried in Greenwood United Church Cemetery, Greenwood, Renfrew, 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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English (Lancashire):
perhaps a habitational name from a lost locality on the River Ribble called Hurroc, alluded to in Hurrocford (about 1330), now modern Horrocksford in Clitheroe (Lancashire). Hurroc- may be linked to modern northern English dialect hurrock ‘piled up heap of stones or rubbish’ but there is no evidence so far for a Middle English surname atte hurroke.
variant of Horwick (see Horwich ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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