Brief Life History of William Henry
When William Henry Oxby was born on 15 November 1869, in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, his father, Thomas Dymock Oxby, was 27 and his mother, Martha Ann Haley, was 23. He married Mary Jane Pyke on 23 February 1898, in Prescott, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Elizabethtown Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada for about 20 years. He died on 13 January 1947, in Athens, Ohio, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Elizabethtown-Kitley Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
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Sources (6)
- William Oxby in household of Thomas Dimock Oxby, "Canada Census, 1871"
- William H Oxby, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- William Henry Oxby, "BillionGraves Index"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English: locative name from an unidentified place, evidently in Lincs, apparently with Old Scandinavian bȳ ‘village, settlement’ as the final element.
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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