When Sophia Caron was born about 1851, her father, Gregory Carron, was 23 and her mother, Josephine McElaine, was 22. She married Honoré "Henry" Peltier on 24 August 1869, in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She died on 30 May 1878, in Tilbury East, Kent, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 28, and was buried in Saint Peter's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Tilbury, Chatham-Kent, 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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Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Normand, Marcel, Andre, Lucien, Pierre, Fernand, Emile, Gaston, Laurent, Adrien, Alcide.
French and Walloon; Flemish and Dutch (of French origin): metonymic occupational name for a carter, or possibly a cartwright, from caron, a Norman-Picard form of Old French charron ‘carter’ or ‘cartwright’.
French: from a personal name of Gaulish origin, represented in Latin records in the form Caraunus. This name was borne by a 5th-century Breton saint who lived at Chartres and was murdered by robbers; his legend led to its widespread use as a personal name during the Middle Ages. Compare Carron , Carrow 2, Coron 1, and Corrow .
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