When William G. Convery was born in 1869, in Storrington Township, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Robert Convery, was 23 and his mother, Sarah Jane Vancoughnet, was 27.
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British Columbia joins the confederation.
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.
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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