Brief Life History of Patience
When Patience Bates was born in 1803, in Grenville, Upper Canada, British North America, her father, George Bates, was 38 and her mother, Patience Churchill, was 36. She married Nathan Dayton Cromwell on 9 December 1824, in Elizabethtown Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Malahide Township, Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1881. She died on 27 April 1883, in Norwich, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 80.
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- Patience Cromwell, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Non secure link. Elizabeth McInntosh: published marraige record: 1812-1842 Marriages performed by Rev. William Smart of Elizabethtown, Upper Canada.
- Patience Cromwell, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Bate with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also common in Ireland.
Americanized form of German Betz . See also Betts .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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