Mary Phelps

Brief Life History of Mary

When Mary Phelps was born about 1849, in Rideau Lakes Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, her father, Daniel L Phelps, was 41 and her mother, Lucy Minerva Wood, was 33.

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Family Time Line

Daniel L Phelps
1810–1895
Lucy Minerva Wood
1818–1870
William Byron Phelps
1838–1935
Almira D. Phelps
1841–
Mary Phelps
1849–
Sheldon M Phelps
1850–
Eugene Phelps
1852–1901
Lineous Nelson Phelps
1845–1921

Sources (1)

  • Mary Phelps, "Ontario Census, 1861"

World Events (7)

1867 · Ontario Founded

On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.

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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.

Name Meaning

Scottish and English (southwestern): variant of Phillips .

History: The brothers George and William Phelps emigrated from Gloucestershire, England, to Dorchester, MA, c. 1630. Five years later they moved to Windsor, CT. George's sixth-generation descendant, Anson Greene Phelps (1781–1853), rose from being a penniless orphan to the status of a major industrialist and a prominent CT philanthropist.

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

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