When Annie Augusta Stockford was born on 16 June 1855, in Carleton, New Brunswick, British North America, her father, Thomas Gabriel Stockford, was 39 and her mother, Henrietta Sewell, was 26. She married William Howard Wiggins on 8 March 1871, in Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Aberdeen, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada in 1871 and Brighton, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada in 1871. She died in April 1880, in East Knowlesville, Aberdeen, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 24.
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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.
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British Columbia joins the confederation.
English (Oxfordshire): in northern England and the North Midlands, usually a variant of Stockport, a habitational name from Stockport (Cheshire), from Old English stoc ‘place, secondary settlement’ + port ‘town, market’; elsewhere it may have a different origin, such as Stokeford in East Stoke (Dorset), which takes its name from East Stoke + Old English ford ‘ford’, meaning ‘the ford near (East) Stoke’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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