Brief Life History of Delilah
When Delilah Salisbury was born about 1824, in Fredericksburgh Township, Lennox, Canada West, British North America, her father, Lucas Salisbury, was 24 and her mother, Sarah Ann Lee, was 20. She married William Anthony Lee in 1844, in Loughborough Township, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Loughborough Township, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada for about 20 years. She died on 22 December 1916, in Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 93, and was buried in Cataraqui, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada.
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- Delye Lee in household of William Lee, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Delilah Salisbury in the Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1938
- Delia Lee, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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World Events (4)
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.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
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
English (Lancashire): habitational name primarily from Salesbury in Blackburn (Lancashire) but also occasionally from Salisbury (Wiltshire). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English salh ‘willow, sallow’ + burg ‘fortress’, while the Wiltshire placename arises from a shortened form of the Celtic placename Sorviodunum (from an unknown initial element + Celtic dūno- ‘fort’). In the Old English period the second element was dropped and Sorvio- (of unexplained etymology) became Searo- in Old English as the result of folk etymological association the Old English word searu ‘trick’; to this an explanatory burh ‘fortress, manor, town’ was added. The city is recorded in the Domesday Book as Sarisberie; the change of -r- to -l- is the result of later dissimilation.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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