Brief Life History of Clarinda Claude
When Clarinda Claude Brown was born in October 1841, in Bayham, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, her father, Peter Boughner Brown, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Ronson, was 25. She married William Watson on 18 March 1861, in Bruce Township, Bruce, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Culross Township, Bruce, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 24 August 1896, at the age of 54, and was buried in South Bruce, Bruce, Ontario, Canada.
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- Carindia Watson in household of William Watson, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Clarinda C Brown, "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"
- Clarinda Claude Brown Watson, "Find a Grave Index"
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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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1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the color of the hair or complexion, Middle English br(o)un, from Old English brūn or Old French brun. This word is occasionally found in Old French, Middle English and Old Norse as a personal name or byname (Middle English personal name Brun, Broun, ancient Germanic Bruno, Old English Brūn, or possibly Old Norse Brúnn or Brúni). Brun- was also an ancient Germanic name-forming element. Some instances of Old English Brūn as a personal name may therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brūngar, Brūnwine, etc. As a Scottish and Irish name, it sometimes represents a translation of Gaelic Donn (see below). Brown (including in the senses below) is the fourth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below).
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Ó Duinn (see Dunn ) or for any of the many Irish and Scottish Gaelic names containing the element donn ‘brown-haired’ (also meaning ‘chieftain’), for example Donahue .
Irish: phonetic Anglicization of Mac an Bhreitheamhnaigh; see Breheny .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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