Brief Life History of Sarah Maria
When Sarah Maria Beckstead was born on 4 June 1824, in Williamsburgh Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, her father, Alexander Beckstead, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Christina Rosenberger, was 33. She married Gordon George Fetterly on 29 September 1841, in Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada in 1901. She died on 20 March 1911, in Williamsburgh Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 86, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada.
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Family Time Line
Sources (18)
- Sarah M. Fetterly in household of Gordon Fetterly, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Sarah Maria Bedstead, "Ontario, Marriages, 1800-1910"
- Maria Fetterly, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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World Events (4)
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.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
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
Americanized form of North German Beckstedde or Beckstedt: topographic name from Low German Beck ‘stream’ + -stedde ‘place’, or a habitational name from Beckstedt near Wildeshausen, Oldenburg.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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