When Jane Norton was born about 1817, in Darlington, Durham, Upper Canada, British North America, her father, Eleazer Norton, was 11815 and her mother, Anna Brock, was 29. She married George Shier on 26 December 1836, in Brock, York, Home, Upper Canada, British North America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Brock, Durham, Ontario, Canada in 1871. She died in 1878, at the age of 62.
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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.
British Columbia joins the confederation.
English: habitational name from any of the many places so called, from Old English north ‘north’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. In some cases it is a variant of Norrington .
Irish: altered form of Naughton , assimilated to the English name (see 1 above).
Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of some similar (like-sounding) original Ashkenazic surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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