Brief Life History of William Howard
When William Howard Leach was born on 16 October 1888, in Athens, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Robert Leach, was 39 and his mother, Adelaide Cryderman, was 37. He married Bertha Mildred Wilson on 14 February 1922, in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Carleton, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died on 17 March 1938, in Athens, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 49, and was buried in Holy Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery, North Gower, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Family Time Line
Sources (7)
- Howard Leach, "Canada Census, 1901"
- William Howard Lowe Leach, "Canada, Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
- William Howard Leach, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
Spouse and Children
1888–1938 Male
1899–1966 Female
Parents and Siblings
1849–1919 Male
1851–1939 Female
Siblings (3)
1881– Female
1881–1973 Female
1888–1938 Male
World Events (2)
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Age 18
1934 · Dionne Quintuplets Born
Age 46
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a physician, from Middle English leche, lache ‘physician’ (Old English lǣce ‘leech; physician, blood-letter, surgeon’). The name refers to the medieval medical practice of bleeding, typically by applying leeches to a patient. The surname is recorded in the late 14th-century Poll Tax Returns for men whose occupation is stated as medicus ‘physician’, or occasionally spicer (spicers acted as apothecaries), but some men named le Leche have unrelated occupations including cultor ‘cultivator, farm laborer’, which suggests that leche could refer to an amateur ‘medicine man’ who supplied folk remedies.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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