Brief Life History of Minnie A
When Minnie A Fox was born on 5 December 1866, in Gosfield, Essex, Canada West, British Colonial America, her father, Charles Fox, was 37 and her mother, Caroline Wiper, was 38. She married Homer Wigle on 5 December 1900, in Gosfield, Essex, Canada West, British Colonial America. She lived in Essex, Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1901. She died on 18 February 1921, in Gosfield South Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 54, and was buried in Kingsville, Essex, Ontario, Canada.
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- Mary Ann Fox in household of Charles Fox, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Minnie Fox, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- Minnie A. Wigle, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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World Events (5)
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.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
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
English: nickname from a word denoting the animal (Middle English, Old English fox), widely used to denote a sly or cunning individual. It was also used for someone with red hair. In England this surname absorbed some early examples of surnames derived from the ancient Germanic personal names mentioned at Faulks and Foulks .
Irish: part translation of Gaelic Mac an tSionnaigh ‘son of the fox’ (see Tinney ).
Irish: also adopted for Ó Catharnaigh, see Kearney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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