Brief Life History of Electa
When Electa Cross was born about 25 December 1835, in Lansdowne, Leeds and the Thousand Islands, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, her father, John Cross, was 26 and her mother, Eunice Griffin, was 22. She had at least 4 sons and 8 daughters with Duncan Reed. She died about 4 October 1892, in Lansdowne, Leeds and the Thousand Islands, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 56.
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- Electa Read in household of Duncan Read, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Hester Reed in entry for Merrick Rockwood and Bessie A Reed, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- Electa Reed in household of Duncan Reed, "Canada Census, 1871"
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Children (12)
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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.
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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
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a cross, such as one set up by the roadside or in a marketplace, from Middle English cros (Old English cros and Old Norse kross, ultimately from Latin crux, crucem). It is commonly Latinized in medieval records as ad crucem and de Cruce but examples of this can just as well belong to the synonymous but less common name Crouch . In a few cases the surname may have been given originally to someone who lived by a crossroads, but this sense of the word seems to have been a comparatively late development. In other cases, the surname (and its European cognates; see 3 below) may have denoted someone who carried the cross in processions of the Christian Church, but in English at least the usual word for this sense was Crozier .
Irish: shortened form of McCrossen .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cross’ or ‘the cross’, such as French Lacroix , German Kreutz , and Slovenian and Croatian Križ (see Kriz ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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