Brief Life History of Henry James
When Henry James Anderson was born on 21 July 1853, in Kincardine, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, his father, Robert John Anderson, was 37 and his mother, Margaret Clegg, was 36. He married Christina Henrietta Elliott on 6 November 1871, in Kincardine, Bruce, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Alberta, Canada in 1916 and Bow, Cypress County, Alberta, Canada in 1926. He died on 27 April 1936, in Strathmore, Wheatland County, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 82, and was buried in Strathmore, Wheatland County, Alberta, Canada.
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- Henry James Anderson in household of Hugh Anderson, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Henry Anderson, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- Henry James Anderson, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (7)
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.
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
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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