Brief Life History of John
When John Fenton was born about 1874, in Ontario, Canada, his father, Daniel C Fenton, was 34 and his mother, Susan Kaiser, was 35. He married Jennie Ferguson on 3 October 1900, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Pickering, Ontario, Ontario, Canada in 1881.
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- John Fenton in household of Daniel Fenton, "Canada Census, 1881"
- John Fenton, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- John Fenton in entry for Clarence Wilfred Fenton, "Canada, Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
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World Events (8)
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.
1886 · First Workmen's Comp Act
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places, in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and Nottinghamshire, so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh, fen’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Irish: English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta or Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as Hunt (see Fee 1 and Finnerty ).
Scottish: habitational name from Fenton in East Lothian.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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