When Mary Lucrecia Dow was born on 12 July 1824, in Northampton, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada, her father, Jesse Dow, was 52 and her mother, Mary Teed, was 42. She married Charles Sheffield Grant on 27 February 1851, in Northampton, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Canterbury, York, New Brunswick, Canada in 1881. She died on 20 May 1895, in Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 70, and was buried in Northampton, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada.
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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.
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic dubh ‘black’ (see Duff ).
English: from the Middle English personal name Dow, a rhyming pet form of Row(e), representing a common pronunciation of Rolf, a side form of Ralph. See Rolfe and compare Daw , Dawson , and Dowson . Alternatively, in East Anglia the name may be a variant of Dove .
Americanized form of Dutch Douw: from the personal name Douwe, from Frisian dou ‘pigeon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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