When Annie Horricks was born in 1874, in Drummond Township, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, her father, John Horricks, was 33 and her mother, Mary Ramsbottom, was 38. She married Thomas Bridges on 20 October 1892, in Lanark Township, Lanark, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She died on 24 September 1897, in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 23.
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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.
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
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 ).
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