Brief Life History of Grace Van
When Grace Van Volkenburg was born on 8 February 1907, in Ontario, Canada, her father, Simon Haines Van Volkenburg, was 34 and her mother, Matilda Nobes, was 32. She married Carleton Otis Reid on 11 September 1928, in Monroe, New York, United States. She lived in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 13 February 1953, in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 46.
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- Grace Vanvolkenburg in household of Simon Vanvolkenburg, "Canada Census, 1911"
- Grace Van Volkenburg, "Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
- Grace Van Volkenburg, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
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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
From the abstract noun (via Old French, from Latin gratia), this name occurs occasionally in the 15th century, and by the 1540s was among the most popular girls' names in some parishes. It has always been particularly popular in Scotland and northern England (borne, for example, by Grace Darling , the lighthouse keeper's daughter whose heroism in 1838 , saving sailors in a storm, caught the popular imagination). In more recent times it was famous as the name of the actress Grace Kelly ( 1928–82 ), who became Princess Grace of Monaco. In Ireland it is used as an Anglicized form of Gráinne .
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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