Roena Weedmark

Female8 June 1867–10 February 1915

Brief Life History of Roena

When Roena Weedmark was born on 8 June 1867, in Ontario, Canada, her father, John Festus Weedmark, was 21 and her mother, Cecilia Dillabough, was 21. She lived in Watford, Lambton, Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Brandon, Manitoba, Canada in 1911. She died on 10 February 1915, in Souris, Manitoba, Canada, at the age of 47, and was buried in Souris, Manitoba, Canada.

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Family Time Line

John Festus Weedmark
1845–1924
Cecilia Dillabough
1845–1926
Roena Weedmark
1867–1915
Hannah Weedmark
1867–
Drusilla Weedmark
1869–1958
John Weedmark
1871–1872

Sources (4)

  • Roena Weedmart in household of John Weedmart, "Canada Census, 1881"
  • Roena Hannah Weedmark, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Roena Weedmark in household of John Weedmark, "Canada Census, 1911"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (4)

World Events (5)

1869

Age 2

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1871

Age 4

British Columbia joins the confederation.

1883 · Mining Boom

Age 16

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

Latinized form of a Saxon name of uncertain form and derivation. It is perhaps from Germanic hrōd ‘fame’ + wynn ‘joy’. It first occurs in the Latin chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth (12th century) as the name of a daughter of the Saxon invader Hengist, and was taken up by Sir Walter Scott as the name of a Saxon woman, Lady Rowena of Hargottstanstede, who marries the eponymous hero of his novel Ivanhoe ( 1819 ).

Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.

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