Brief Life History of Mary Viola
When Mary Viola Holton was born on 17 July 1875, in Elgin, Ontario, Canada, her father, Andrew Wilson Holton, was 28 and her mother, Sarah Jane Tofflemire, was 18. She married Richard Francis Patrick on 12 July 1893. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Ontario, Canada in 1875 and Colchester South Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1881. She died on 28 April 1939, at the age of 63.
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- Mary Holton in household of William McKay, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Mary Viola Holton, "Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
- Mary V Holton, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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World Events (4)
1883 · Mining Boom
In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
1886 · First Workmen's Comp Act
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Holton, such as those in Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Dorset, and Somerset. The Oxfordshire and Somerset placenames derive from Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the Suffolk placename comes from the Old English personal name Hōla + tūn. The Dorset placename derives from Old English hol ‘hole, hollow’ or holt ‘wood, grove, thicket’ + tūn.
Irish: altered form of O'Haltahan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUltacháin ‘descendant of Ultachán’, a diminutive of Ultach ‘Ulsterman’. This is a rare Fermanagh surname, sometimes Anglicized as Nolan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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