Jane Simmerman

Brief Life History of Jane

When Jane Simmerman was born on 1 March 1812, in Gainsborough Township, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada, her father, Adam Simmerman, was 36 and her mother, Elizabeth Mary Disher, was 32. She married Robert Comfort Jr on 4 July 1833, in Gainsborough Township, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Louth Township, Lincoln, Canada West, British North America in 1851 and Monck Township, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada in 1871. She died in 1893, at the age of 81, and was buried in Silverdale, West Lincoln, Niagara, Ontario, Canada.

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Family Time Line

Robert Comfort Jr
1808–1871
Jane Simmerman
1812–1893
Marriage: 4 July 1833
Adam Comfort
1835–1902
Ezra Comfort
1836–1890
Robert Eli Comfort
1837–1897
Mary Comfort
1839–1916
James Comfort
1841–
Freeman Comfort
1841–1918
Benjamin Comfort
1844–1932
George Wesley Comfort
1846–1922
Alice Jane Comfort
1848–1923
Nathan B Comfort
1850–1923
Loretta Comfort
1856–1903

Sources (26)

  • Jane Comfort, "Canada, Census, 1851"
  • Jane Comfort, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Jane in entry for Robert Eli Comfort and Margaret Cooper, "Canada, Ontario County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"

World Events (4)

1869

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1869

Civil registration did not begin in the province until 1869. Before then there may be church records of baptisms and burials. For the most part these are still held by the denomination who recorded them. Copies of marriage records made pre-1869 had to be sent by individual clergymen to the registrar of the county in which the marriage took place. These marriage records are available through Ontario Archives, on micorfilm through LDS libraries, and on paid and unpaid websites, but because they were copied at the registrars' offices, they cannot be considered a primary source.

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

Americanized form of German Zimmermann .

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

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