Brief Life History of John Gilbert
When John Gilbert Downer was born in 1894, in Otonabee Township, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, his father, William James Downer, was 26 and his mother, Emma Turner Welsh, was 26. He married Ita Teresa Tobin on 17 September 1917, in Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1894 and Peterborough, Ontario, Canada in 1911.
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- John G Downer in household of William J Downer, "Canada Census, 1911"
- John Gilbert Downer, "Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
- Gilbert Downes, "Canada, Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
1934 · Dionne Quintuplets Born
Born on May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets were the first set of quintuplets to survive infancy. The five girls were born two months prematuare and months later were taken from their parents by the Red Cross. In the 1940s they were returned to their family.
1943 · Conservative Party Wins Ontario Election
George A. Drew was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 1943, they won the Ontario election.
Name Meaning
English (Isle of Wight, Hampshire, and Sussex): topographic name for someone who lived on a hill or down, from Middle English douner, a derivative of Middle English doun (Old English dūn) ‘hill’ + -er. It is synonymous with atte Doune (see Down ) and is a type of formation especially common in Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire.
English: in the north-West Midlands perhaps a variant of Downward with shortening of the final syllable to -er, a habitational name probably from Downwood (Herefordshire) and perhaps also Dunwood (Staffordshire), with -wood re-etymologized as -ward and occasionally shortened to -ard. See also Downard .
Irish (Tipperary): variant of Dooner 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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