When Henrietta "Retta" Convery was born in February 1881, in Storrington Township, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada, her father, Hugh Convery, was 42 and her mother, Elizabeth "Betsey" Howes, was 42. She married Robert Bronson Jamieson on 5 December 1901, in Kingston Township, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada. She died on 4 April 1904, in Kingston Township, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 23.
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Irish (Derry): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Ainmhire ‘son of Ainmhire’, a byname meaning ‘fierceness’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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