Brief Life History of Jane Pauline
When Jane Pauline Smith was born on 29 December 1861, in Fort Lawrence, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, John Travis Smith, was 39 and her mother, Paulina Maud Cannon, was 31. She married Alonzo Alfonzo Pemberton on 15 July 1890, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1871 and Albert, New Brunswick, Canada in 1901. She died on 18 April 1903, in Fort Lawrence, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 41, and was buried in Fort Lawrence, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Jane Smith, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Jennie P Smith, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Jennie P. Smith Pemberton, "Find a Grave Index"
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World Events (4)
1867 · British North America Act
The British North America Act or Constitution Act of 1867 caused three British colonies, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada to be united as one under the name Canada. Until this point New Brunswick had been the British crown colony.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1880 · Legislature in Fredericton Destoryed by Fire
On February 25, 1880, the legislature building in Frederiction was destroyed by fire. The builiding was completely made of wood meaning that there was nothing left of it. The chair that the speaker used and a marble top table were all that remained.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name denoting a worker in metal, especially iron, such as a blacksmith or farrier, from Middle English smith ‘smith’ (Old English smith, probably a derivative of smītan ‘to strike, hammer’). Early examples are also found in the Latin form Faber . Metal-working was one of the earliest occupations for which specialist skills were required, and its importance ensured that this term and its equivalents in other languages were the most widespread of all occupational surnames in Europe. Medieval smiths were important not only in making horseshoes, plowshares, and other domestic articles, but above all for their skill in forging swords, other weapons, and armor. This is also the most frequent of all surnames in the US. It is very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below). This surname (in any of the two possible English senses; see also below) is also found in Haiti. See also Smither .
English: from Middle English smithe ‘smithy, forge’ (Old English smiththe). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a blacksmith's shop, occupational, for someone who worked in one, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Smitha in King's Nympton (Devon). Compare Smithey .
Irish and Scottish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac Gobhann, Irish Mac Gabhann ‘son of the smith’. See McGowan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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