Brief Life History of Melbourne Walter
When Melbourne Walter Wood was born in 1921, in Sunny Brae, Moncton City, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Walter Curtis Wood, was 42 and his mother, Annie May Colburne, was 42. He married Barbara Jean Blakeney on 31 May 1948, in Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada. He died in 1999, at the age of 78, and was buried in Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
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- Melbourne Walter Wood, "New Brunswick Provincial Marriages 1789-1950"
- Melbourne W. Wood, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (4)
1937 · Miramichi Strike
August 20, 1937, the Miramichi lumber strike took place. Over 1,500 millworkers and longshoremen struck 14 lumber firms for wage increases.
1955 · Recorder Low Temperature
In 1955, New Brunswick broke the record with a freezing temperature of -47.2° C, in Sisson Dam
1982
Canada Act is passed. The United Kingdom transfers final legal powers over Canada. The country adopts its new constitution, which includes a charter of rights.
Name Meaning
English: mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, such as French Bois and Polish Les .
English: in a few cases, a nickname for an eccentric or perhaps a violent person, from Middle English wode ‘frenzied, wild’ (Old English wōd).
Americanized form of French Gadbois .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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