Margaret Leonard

Brief Life History of Margaret

When Margaret Leonard was born on 29 February 1880, in Schomberg, York, Ontario, Canada, her father, Stephen Arthur Leonard, was 45 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Winter, was 38. She immigrated to Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York, United States in 1932 and lived in York Township, York, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years.

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Family Time Line

Stephen Arthur Leonard
1835–1920
Mary Elizabeth Winter
1843–
Sarah Leonard
1868–1905
Annie Elizabeth Leonard
1870–1952
William Arthur Leonard
1873–
Mary E Leonard
1875–
Ruth Leonard
1878–
Margaret Leonard
1880–
Caroline Leonard
1881–
Harvey Leonard
1883–
Stephen Robert Leonard
1886–

Sources (6)

  • Margret Leonard in household of Stephen Leonard, "Canada Census, 1911"
  • Margaret Leonard, "Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
  • Margaret Leonard, "United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956"

World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

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.

1912 · The Girl Scouts

Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.

Name Meaning

English; French (Léonard); Walloon (mainly Léonard): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements leo ‘lion’ (a late addition to the vocabulary of ancient Germanic name elements, taken from Latin) + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’, which was taken to England by the Normans. A Christian saint of this name, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century, but about whom nothing is known except for a largely fictional life dating from half a millennium later, was popular throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages and was regarded as the patron of peasants and horses. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Leonardo , Polish, Slovenian, etc. Lenart or Lenard , and probably also their derivatives. Compare Larned , Learned , and Yenor .

Irish (Fermanagh): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Fhionáin or of Langan .

German: variant of Leonhard , cognate with 1 above.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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