When Robert J. Eastman was born on 3 March 1848, in New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Jacob Eastman, was 31 and his mother, Nancy Roulston, was 32. He married Agnes Taylor on 11 November 1874, in Stanley, York, New Brunswick, Canada. He lived in Saint Marys, York, New Brunswick, Canada for about 20 years and York, New Brunswick, Canada in 1901. He died on 4 October 1906, in Nashwaak Bridge, Saint Marys, York, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 58.
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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.
British Columbia joins the confederation.
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.
English: from the Middle English personal name Estmund (Old English Ēastmund, from ēast ‘east’ + mund ‘protection’). See also Esmond .
English: occasionally a variant of Heasman, a topographic name for a dweller ‘(in the) brushwood’, from Old English hǣse ‘brushwood’ + mann (compare Hayes 3).
Americanized form (translation into English) of Swedish Östman (see Ostman ) and North German Ostmann or Östmann (see Oestmann ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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