Brief Life History of Edgar Stanley
When Edgar Stanley Crowder was born on 27 September 1897, in Ontario, Canada, his father, John Edgar Crowder, was 24 and his mother, Nancy Jane Campbell, was 29. He married Margaret Rose Grosvenor on 31 August 1926, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Ottawa, Carleton, Canada West, British North America in 1931. He died on 18 November 1961, at the age of 64, and was buried in Maple Ridge Cemetery, Winchester Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada.
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- Edgar S Crowder, "Canada Census, 1931"
- Edgar Stanley Crowder, "Ontario Births, 1869-1910"
- Edgar Stanley Crowder, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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1934 · Dionne Quintuplets Born
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1943 · Conservative Party Wins Ontario Election
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Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English crouder, crouther ‘player of the croud’, a stringed instrument sometimes known as the Welsh fiddle (Middle English croud, a borrowing of Welsh crwth). In Wales and in English counties bordering Wales the name may have been an Anglicized form of the equivalent Welsh crythor ‘fiddler’. The surname also occurs as Crowther .
Americanized form of German Krauter or its Dutch cognates Kruiter and Kruider.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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