When Jane Neville was born on 25 September 1859, in Douglas, Admaston-Bromley Township, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada, her father, Michel Nevil, was 32 and her mother, Mary Paul, was 26. She married Henry Pride in 1879, in Mattawa, Nipissing, Canada West, British North America. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Bromley Township, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and Renfrew, Ontario, Canada in 1881. She died on 1 April 1919, in Nipissing, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 59, and was buried in Saint Annes Cemetery, Mattawa, Nipissing, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Neuville in Calvados or Néville in Seine-Maritime, both so called from Old French neu(f) ‘new’ (from Latin novus) + ville ‘settlement’. One family line, originally from Neuville (Calvados), became powerful during the Wars of the Roses through Richard Neville (1428–71), 16th Earl of Warwick, nicknamed "The Kingmaker".
Irish (Munster): assimilation of the Gaelic name Ó Niadh (see Nee ) and sometimes of Ó Cnaimhín (see Nevin ).
History: George Neville came to VA in or c. 1700 and settled on the headwaters of the Occoquan River, acquiring a large estate. His descendants, bearing the surnames Neville and Craig, were of considerable importance in Pittsburgh, PA, and Cincinnati, OH.
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