Brief Life History of Rosanna
When Rosanna Austin was born about 1833, in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, her father, James Austin, was 28 and her mother, Rebecca Elizabeth Hughes, was 36. She married Isaiah Griffin on 11 March 1863, in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Front of Yonge Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 30 January 1916, in Lyn, Elizabethtown-Kitley, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 84, and was buried in Yonge Mills Cemetery, Yonge Mills, Front of Yonge Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
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- Rosanna Griffin, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Rosanna Austin, "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"
- Rosanna Griffin, "Canada, Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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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, French, and German: from the personal name Austin, from Latin Augustinus, a derivative of Augustus (see Augustin ). This was an extremely common personal name in every part of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, owing its popularity chiefly to Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430), whose influence on Christianity is generally considered to be second only to that of Saint Paul. Various religious orders came to be formed following rules named in his honor, including the ‘Austin canons’, established in the 11th century, and the ‘Austin friars’, a mendicant order dating from the 13th century. The popularity of the personal name in England was further increased by the fact that it was borne by Saint Augustine of Canterbury (died c. 605), an Italian Benedictine monk known as ‘the Apostle of the English’, who brought Christianity to southern England in 597 and founded the see of Canterbury.
English: variant of Aspden , with which this surname became confused.
History: This was the name of a merchant family that became established in eastern MA in the 17th century, notably in Charlestown. Richard Austin came from England and landed at Boston in 1638, and his son Anthony was clerk of Suffield, CT, in 1674. The surname is very common in England as well as America; this Richard Austin was only one of a number of bearers who brought it to North America. — In 1821 Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836), born in Austinville VA, founded the first Anglo colony in TX.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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