When Frederick Eisan was born on 23 May 1821, in Ship Harbour, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, John Michael Eisan, was 36 and his mother, Sofia Charlotte Siteman, was 30. He married Maria Sophia Weeks on 24 February 1851, in Ship Harbour, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1861 and Jeddore, Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America for about 10 years. He died on 11 April 1891, at the age of 69, and was buried in Ship Harbour, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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In 1848, Nova Scotia became the first self-governing colony in the British Empire.
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Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Chaim, Gavriel, Avram, Hyman, Moshe, Naftali, Noam, Ori, Shai, Shloime, Yoel. German Erwin, Kurt, Benno, Eldor, Helmut, Horst, Ilse, Karlheinz, Reiner, Wolfgang.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for an ironworker or smith, or an ironmonger, from Middle High German īsen ‘iron’, German Eisen, Yiddish ayzn. It may also have been used as a nickname, with reference to the strength and hardness of iron or to its color, while as a Jewish name it is also an artificial name.
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