Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Myers was born on 25 August 1859, in Bastard Township, Leeds, Canada West, British North America, her father, Thomas Myers, was 25 and her mother, Lavonia Farnam, was 23. She lived in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada for about 40 years. She died on 19 April 1943, in Portland, Rideau Lakes Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 83, and was buried in Forfar Methodist Cemetery, Forfar, Rideau Lakes Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
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- Sarah Myers in household of Thomas Myers, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Sarah Myers, "Find A Grave Index"
- Legacy NFS Source: Sarah Myers -
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World Events (7)
1867 · Ontario Founded
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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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.
Name Meaning
Irish (Tipperary, Limerick and Waterford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Meidhir ‘descendant of Meidhir’, with post-medieval excrescent -s. Meidhir is a personal name based on meidhir ‘mirth’.
English (northern): variant of Myer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English (northern): habitational name from one or more of the minor placenames derived from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse mýrr) in the plural form, such as Melmerby Mire in Melmerby, or Mires in Docker (both Cumbria).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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