John Fenton

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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Family Time Line

John Fenton
1874–
Jennie Ferguson
1871–
Marriage: 3 October 1900
John Harold Fenton
1901–1918
Ellen Fenton
Margery Fenton
Clarence Wilfred Fenton
1904–

Sources (7)

  • 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"

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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