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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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.
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.
Americanized form of German Zimmermann .
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