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.
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 ).
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