Brief Life History of William Ernest
When William Ernest Preston was born in October 1878, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Preston, was 25 and his mother, Sarah Jane Elizabeth Cope, was 27. He married Bertha Prince in April 1898, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Leicester St Margaret, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Mackenzie, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1906. He died on 1 November 1967, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 89, and was buried in Vilna, Smoky Lake County, Alberta, Canada.
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- William Preston, "Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1916"
- Ernest Preston, "Michigan Births, 1867-1902"
- William Ernest Preston, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
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1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
1905
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Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from one of the many places (most notably one in Lancashire) so called from Old English prēost ‘priest’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
occasionally from Middle English prest + son ‘son of the priest’. Priests were forbidden marriage but many produced illegitimate offspring.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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