When Letitia Etter was born about 1818, in New Brunswick, Canada, her father, Peter Etter III, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth Wethered, was 29. She lived in Westmorland, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada in 1851.
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The British North America Act or Constitution Act of 1867 caused three British colonies, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada to be united as one under the name Canada. Until this point New Brunswick had been the British crown colony.
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On February 25, 1880, the legislature building in Frederiction was destroyed by fire. The builiding was completely made of wood meaning that there was nothing left of it. The chair that the speaker used and a marble top table were all that remained.
South German and Swiss German: topographic name for someone who lived near the boundary fence of a village, from Middle High German eter ‘woven boundary fence’.
North German: from Middle Low German etter ‘uncle’ or ‘cousin’.
Swiss German: from Middle High German etter ‘cousin’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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