Brief Life History of Eli
When Eli Oille was born in 1835, in Pelham, Welland, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Nicholas Oille, was 34 and his mother, Margaret Johnson, was 36. He married Agnes Book on 4 November 1858, in Lincoln, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Pelham, Niagara, Ontario, Canada in 1871. He died from 1856 to 1925.
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Sources (9)
- Eli Oille, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Eli Oill, "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"
- Eli Oill in entry for John Allan Oill, "Canada, Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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World Events (3)
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
Some characteristic forenames: German Juergen, Darrold, Franz, Guenter, Karl Heinz, Klaus, Konrad, Monika. Scandinavian Erik, Johan, Sig.
German and Dutch: from a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name with the element hild ‘strife’, such as Hillebrand .
Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southwestern Norway, mostly on islands, named Hille, from Old Norse hilla ‘terrace, ledge’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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