When Jean Beckwith was born on 5 January 1768, in Cornwallis Township, Kings, Nova Scotia, British North America, her father, Major John Beckwith Jr., was 29 and her mother, Katherine Chipman, was 21. She married Edward Sanford about 1796, in Cornwallis Township, Kings, Nova Scotia, British North America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter.
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In 1820, Cape Breton Island rejoined Nova Scotia. It is located on the Northeastern part of Nova Scotia. Until then it had been owned by the French until 1763. Than was in British control and a separate colony in 1784.
In 1848, Nova Scotia became the first self-governing colony in the British Empire.
English: habitational name from a place in Yorkshire named Beckwith, from Old English bēce ‘beech’ + Old Norse vithr ‘wood’ (replacing the cognate Old English wudu).
History: Most if not all present-day bearers of the surname are probably descended from William Beckwith who held the manor of Beckwith in 1364.
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