Brief Life History of Maria Elizabeth
When Maria Elizabeth Lapp was born on 5 August 1856, in Grafton, Haldimand, Northumberland, Canada West, British Colonial America, her father, Charles Henry Lapp, was 40 and her mother, Jane Badgley, was 37. She married David Rogers on 20 April 1875, in Haldimand, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Haldimand, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and Mariposa, Victoria, Ontario, Canada in 1881. She died on 7 November 1900, in Woodville, Peterborough, Canada West, British Colonial America, at the age of 44, and was buried in Friends Cemetery, Mariposa, Victoria, Ontario, Canada.
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- Maria Rogers, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Maria Lapp, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- Maggie E. Rogers, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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1867 · Ontario Founded
On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
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British Columbia joins the confederation.
Name Meaning
German, English, and Dutch: from Middle High German and Middle English lappe, Middle Dutch lap ‘cloth, patch, rag’, a metonymic occupational name for a mender of clothes or shoes, or a nickname given to someone who wore ragged clothes or garments with loose folds, flaps, or hanging sleeves, or who had fleshy folds of skin on his face, neck, or body.
German: nickname for a simple-minded person, from Middle Low German lappe ‘fool’. This surname (in any of the two possible senses; see also 1 above) is also found in France (mainly Alsace, also Lorraine).
English: nickname from Anglo-Norman French lappe ‘burdock’, perhaps for someone with a prickly character.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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