Brief Life History of Charles Orval
When Charles Orval Baldwin was born on 4 April 1890, in Richmond, Ottawa-Carleton, Ontario, Canada, his father, George Samuel Baldwin, was 34 and his mother, Martha Ann Deline, was 34. He married Jessie Pearl Storey on 31 December 1912, in Napanee, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Addington, Canada West, British Colonial America in 1901 and Lennox, Richmond, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1911. He died on 14 November 1961, at the age of 71, and was buried in North Bay, Nipissing, Ontario, Canada.
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- Charles Baldwin, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Charles Orval Baldwin, "Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
- Charles Orval Baldwin, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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World Events (7)
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
1909 · First Canadian Flight
The Silver Dart was the first recorded flight in Canada. It took off from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, on February 23, 1909, and was piloted by John Alexander Douglas McCurdy.
1921 · Racing Schooner Launched
The Bluenose racing schooner was launched on March 26, 1921, in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. It was evident that the ship was nothing like other ships that had been launched.
Name Meaning
English and North German: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements bald ‘bold, brave’ + wine ‘friend’, which was extremely popular among the Normans and in Flanders in the early Middle Ages. It was the personal name of the Crusader who in 1100 became the first Christian king of Jerusalem, and of four more Crusader kings of Jerusalem. It was also borne by Baldwin, Count of Flanders (1172–1205), leader of the Fourth Crusade, who became first Latin Emperor of Constantinople (1204). In North America, this surname has absorbed Dutch forms such as Boudewijn.
Irish: surname adopted in Donegal by bearers of the Gaelic surname Ó Maolagáin (see Milligan ), due to association of Gaelic maol ‘bald, hairless’ with English bald.
History: A John Baldwin from Buckinghamshire, England, arrived in the US in 1638 and settled in Milford, CT.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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