Brief Life History of William
When William Barton was born in 1789, in Waterborough, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, William Barton, was 24 and his mother, Jane Burk, was 24. He had at least 11 sons and 1 daughter with Rhoda Ann Goodwin. He died in 1901, at the age of 112, and was buried in Cumberland Bay Baptist Church Old Cemetery, Cumberland Bay, Waterborough, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada.
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- William Barton, "Canada, New Brunswick Census, 1861"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Barton - Census record: birth-name: William Barton
- William Barton in the Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
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1867 · British North America Act
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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Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bere or bær ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, i.e. an outlying grange. Compare Barwick . The name is also found in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bartún.
Polish (Bartoń); Czech and Slovak (mainly Bartoň): from a pet form of the personal name Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj, Slovak Bartolomej, from Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew ). This surname is also found in Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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