When John Oakes was born on 4 May 1908, in Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Robert Oakes, was 28 and his mother, Ada Bastain, was 28. He lived in Alberta, Canada in 1916. He died about 1978, in Blairmore, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 71.
English: topographic name, a variant of Oak with either an original plural -s or an excescent -s added later to the surname.
Irish (Louth, Wexford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dubhdara ‘son of Dubhdara’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘dark’ + dara(ch), genitive of dair ‘oak’, by translation of the main element of the Gaelic name.
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