When Emily M Edwards was born on 19 August 1883, in Arthur Township, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, her father, John Robert Edwards, was 31 and her mother, Martha Priscilla Gregory, was 24. She married James W Rogers on 19 October 1904, in Arthur Township, Wellington, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Wellington, Ontario, Canada in 1901. She died on 23 September 1905, in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 22, and was buried in Eramosa Township, Wellington, Ontario, Canada.
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In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
English and Welsh: variant of Edward , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
History: One of the earliest American bearers of this very common English surname was William Edwards, the son of Rev. Richard Edwards, a London clergyman in the age of Elizabeth I, who came to New England c. 1640. His descendant Jonathan (1703–58), of East Windsor, CT, was a prominent Congregational clergyman whose New England theology led to the first Great Awakening, a great religious revival.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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