Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Lake was born on 20 November 1816, in Storrington Township, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada, her father, John Lake, was 35 and her mother, Mary McLaughlin, was 28. She married George Hogel about 1832, in Ernestown Township, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Frontenac, Ontario, Canada in 1901. She died on 27 February 1907, in Battersea, Frontenac, Canada West, British Colonial America, at the age of 90, and was buried in Sandhill Cemetery, Battersea, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada.
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- Martha J Richie in household of Adam Richie, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Mary Jane Ritchie, "Canada, Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
- Ritchie Lake in entry for William Ritchie, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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1831
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1867
South Frontenac is a township in Frontenac County in eastern Ontario, Canada.[1] It was amalgamated in 1998 from the former townships of Bedford, Loughborough, Portland, and Storrington.[4]
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Name Meaning
English (mainly West Country): topographic name usually for someone who lived by a streamlet (Middle English lak(e), Old English lacu) or who lived at or came from any of the places so named, such as Lack in Church Stoke (Shropshire) and Lake in Wilsford near Amesbury (Wiltshire). Lake is a common minor placename in Devon.
English: occasionally perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a lake or pool (Middle English, Old French lake), though it is uncertain that this word was current in ordinary vocabulary during the main period of surname formation (1250–1400).
North German and Dutch: habitational name from any of several places in Westphalia and Lower Saxony so named, or a topographic name from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch lake ‘swamp, swampy meadow’ (Middle Dutch also ‘border water’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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