When Magdalene Smith was born on 12 July 1793, in Pelham, Niagara, Canada West, British North America, her father, Nicholas Smith, was 37 and her mother, Catharina May, was 21. She married John Wesley Bessey on 17 June 1816, in Grantham Township, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 24 June 1872, in Grantham Township, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 78, and was buried in Victoria Lawn Cemetery, St. Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
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English and Scottish: occupational name denoting a worker in metal, especially iron, such as a blacksmith or farrier, from Middle English smith ‘smith’ (Old English smith, probably a derivative of smītan ‘to strike, hammer’). Early examples are also found in the Latin form Faber . Metal-working was one of the earliest occupations for which specialist skills were required, and its importance ensured that this term and its equivalents in other languages were the most widespread of all occupational surnames in Europe. Medieval smiths were important not only in making horseshoes, plowshares, and other domestic articles, but above all for their skill in forging swords, other weapons, and armor. This is also the most frequent of all surnames in the US. It is very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below). This surname (in any of the two possible English senses; see also below) is also found in Haiti. See also Smither .
English: from Middle English smithe ‘smithy, forge’ (Old English smiththe). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a blacksmith's shop, occupational, for someone who worked in one, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Smitha in King's Nympton (Devon). Compare Smithey .
Irish and Scottish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac Gobhann, Irish Mac Gabhann ‘son of the smith’. See McGowan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesTHE BESSEY FAMILY BIBLE The family bible is in the possession of Ann Jane BESSEY Hazlewood Seidl, of Buffalo, New York. Holy Bible- Oxford-Printed at the University Press, For the British and Forei …
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