Brief Life History of Franklin James
When Franklin James Andrews was born on 1 February 1859, in Aurora, York, Ontario, Canada, his father, James Andrews, was 30 and his mother, Abigail Cook, was 34. He married Mabel Eloise Charlton on 24 June 1907, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 1 February 1932, in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 73, and was buried in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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- Franklin J Andrews in household of James Andrews, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Legacy NFS Source: Frank Andrews - birth: 1858; Aurora, York, Ontario, Canada
- Franklyn James Andrews, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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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: variant of Andrew , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This is the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the Scottish and northern English form is Anderson . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Polish Andrzejewski , Slovenian Andrejčič, Serbian and Croatian Andrić (see Andric ), and Czech Ondráček (see Ondracek ).
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis or Irish Mac Aindriú, see McAndrew .
History: This was a common name among the early settlers in New England. Robert Andrews emigrated in 1635 from Norwich, England, to Ipswich, MA. Even before 1635, one Thomas Andrews is recorded as being established in Hingham. A certain William Andrews was a member of John Davenport's company, which sailed from Boston in 1638 to found the New Haven colony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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