Brief Life History of Mildern Blanch
When Mildern Blanch Stafford was born on 25 August 1891, in Middleton Township, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada, her father, Robert Mathias Stafford, was 37 and her mother, Mary Etta Wall, was 39. She married Thomas Henry Graydon on 27 March 1918, in Middleton Township, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada. She lived in Norfolk, Ontario, Canada in 1901. She died about 1958, in Tillsonburg, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 68.
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- Mildred B Stafford in household of Robert Stafford, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Mildern Blanch Stafford, "Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mildern Blanch Stafford - Church record: Cemetery record or headstone: death: about 1958; Tillsonburg, Oxford, Ontario, Canada
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World Events (4)
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
1934 · Dionne Quintuplets Born
Born on May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets were the first set of quintuplets to survive infancy. The five girls were born two months prematuare and months later were taken from their parents by the Red Cross. In the 1940s they were returned to their family.
1943 · Conservative Party Wins Ontario Election
George A. Drew was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 1943, they won the Ontario election.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name principally from Stafford (Staffordshire), but occasionally from other places with similar names, such as Stafford House in Ifield (Sussex), possibly East and West Stowford in East Down (Devon), and three minor places in Devon called Stafford, in Dolton, Broadhembury, and Colyton parishes. The places are all named with Old English ford ‘ford’ as the final element, but have different initial elements. The Staffordshire placename has Old English stæth ‘river bank, shore’; Stafford in Colyton (Devon) has Old English stān ‘stone, rock’; the Sussex placename has Old English stēor ‘steer, bullock’; East and West Stowford (Devon) have Old English stæf ‘staff, stave, rod’; Stafford in Dolton and Stafford in Broadhembury (Devon) may have Old English stæth, stān, or stæf.
Irish (Wexford): variant of Stocker .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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