Brief Life History of Benjamin
When Benjamin Kipp was born on 26 March 1811, in Burford, Burford, Brant, Ontario, Canada, his father, Isaac Kipp Sr, was 46 and his mother, Hannah Lamb Mead, was 40. He married Elizabeth Force on 20 April 1836, in Burford, Brant, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 21 September 1890, in Burford, Brant, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 79, and was buried in Princeton, Oxford, Ontario, Canada.
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- Benjamin Kipp, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Benjamin Kipp, "Find A Grave Index"
- Benjamin Kipp in entry for Isaac Kipp and Mary Nelums, "Canada, British Columbia Marriage Registrations, 1859-1932; 1937-1938"
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World Events (4)
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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1883 · Mining Boom
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.
Name Meaning
North German: from Middle Low German kip ‘bundle (e.g. of hides or flax)’, hence probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a fur trader, for example.
North German and Dutch: from a short form of the old personal name Gebolf, composed of the ancient Germanic elements geb ‘gift’ + wolf ‘wolf’. Compare Kip 1.
German: topographic name for someone living on a hill, from Kippe ‘edge, brink’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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