When Jane A Simpson was born on 12 June 1843, in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, her father, George Simpson, was 34 and her mother, Lucinda Hemmingway, was 34. She married James Albert Shipman on 3 February 1868, in Oxford-on-Rideau Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Oxford-on-Rideau Township, Grenville, Canada West, British North America in 1871. She died on 1 September 1907, in Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Brookside Cemetery, Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon, United States.
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Historical Boundaries - 1848: Yamhill, Oregon Unorganized Federal Territory, United States; 1848: Yamhill, Oregon Territory, United States; 1859: Yamhill, Oregon, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m), Sime (see Sim ) + -son.
English: occasionally a variant of Sumsion with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant, a dialect feature of southwestern England.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson, all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
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