Lydia Boyd

Brief Life History of Lydia

When Lydia Boyd was born on 2 October 1849, in Canada West, British North America, her father, William Wilson Boyd Sr., was 42 and her mother, Delilah Hawley, was 36. She married William Sharpe on 10 August 1865, in Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Brooke, Lambton, Canada West, British North America in 1871 and Lambton, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 22 October 1927, in Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 78, and was buried in Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada.

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Family Time Line

William Sharpe
1842–1924
Lydia Boyd
1849–1927
Marriage: 10 August 1865
Hollis John Sharpe
1866–1940
Bertha C. Sharp
1868–1924
William Wesley Sharpe
1870–1940
Harvey Milton SHARPE
1872–1954
Joseph Burton Sharpe
1875–1958
Daniel Worden Sharpe
1877–1962
Ella Minetta Sharp
1879–1951
Georgina Mabel Sharpe
1882–1953

Sources (24)

  • Lyda Sharp in household of William Sharp, "Canada Census, 1871"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Lydia Hawley - Government record: birth-name: Lydia Hawley
  • Lydia Boya, "Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1935"

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.

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: habitational name from the island of Bute in the Firth of Clyde, from Bòid (genitive case of Bòd, the Gaelic name of the island of Bute) or Bòideach, denoting a person from Bute. Alternatively, the name may denote descendants of a Gilla filius Boed, who appears in reference to Glasgow Cathedral in the early 12th century, perhaps from the Gaelic personal name Boite, of uncertain origin.

Scottish and Irish: from the Gaelic epithet buidhe ‘yellow(-haired)’. Compare Bowie .

Manx: from Mac Gille Buidhe ‘son of the yellow-haired lad’ (compare 2 above).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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