When Daniel Donald Compton was born about 1807, in Saint Martins, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, William Compton, was 38 and his mother, Mary Vaughan, was 24. He married Mercy Elizabeth Bearse about 1834, in Belle River, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 5 January 1869, in Belle River, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada, at the age of 63.
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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.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places throughout England (but especially in the southwest) named Compton, from Old English cumb ‘short, straight valley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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