When John Dunn was born on 8 April 1861, in Ontario, Canada, his father, Orlando Dunn, was 29 and his mother, Mary A Stock, was 23. He married Hannah Baldock on 20 May 1889, in York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and Peel, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died in 1939, in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 78, and was buried in Chinguacousy, Peel, Ontario, Canada.
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On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
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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.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinn, Ó Doinn ‘descendant of Donn’, a byname meaning ‘brown-haired’ or ‘chieftain’. Compare Dunne . This name has sometimes been Anglicized as Brown .
English: nickname for a dark complexioned or swarthy man, from Middle English dun ‘dun, dark’ (Old English dunn ‘dull brown’).
Scottish: habitational name from Dun in Angus, named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’. Compare Dun .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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