Margaret Wade

Brief Life History of Margaret

When Margaret Wade was born on 6 September 1782, in Dorchester, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, her father, Alexander Wade, was 20 and her mother, Mary Wade, was 20. She married Ebenezer Cole on 28 August 1810, in Westmorland, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 26 March 1876, in Dorchester, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 93, and was buried in Dorchester, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Family Time Line

Ebenezer Cole
1768–1826
Margaret Wade
1782–1876
Marriage: 28 August 1810
James W. Cole
1811–1895
Elizabeth Cole
1811–1888
Olevia Cole
1817–1901
Edward Cole Sr.
1817–1897
Silas Cole
1818–1910

Sources (7)

  • Margaret Cole, "New Brunswick Census, 1861"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Wade - Government record: Cemetery record or headstone: birth:
  • Margaret Wade, "Canada, Marriages, 1661-1949"

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World Events (7)

1801 · The Act of Union

The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.

1808 · The British West Africa Squadron

The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.

1815

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

Name Meaning

English: from the Middle English personal name Wade (Old English Wada or, via Norman French, from ancient Germanic Wado, of unclear origin but possibly related to Old English wadan ‘to go’).

English: topographic name from Middle English wade ‘ford’ (Old English (ge)wæd ‘ford, especially a tidal crossing’) for someone who lived by a ford, or a habitational name from a place so called, such as Wade Hall in North Cove (Suffolk).

Irish: shortened and altered from Mac Uaid, see McQuaid .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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