Brief Life History of Abigail
When Abigail Ketchabaw was born on 11 November 1843, in Ontario, Canada, her father, Jacob Ketchabaw, was 54 and her mother, Susan Ammerman, was 27. She married Samuel Baldwin before 1861, in Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Bayham, Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1891 and Elgin, Rideau Lakes Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1901. She died on 25 July 1913, in Elgin, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 69.
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- Abigell Baldwin, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Abigail Baldwin, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- Abigal Dean, "Canada, Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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World Events (5)
1867 · Ontario Founded
On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
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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.
Name Meaning
Biblical name, meaning ‘father of exaltation’ in Hebrew, borne by one of King David's wives, who had earlier been married to Nabal (1 Samuel 25:3), and by the mother of Absalom's captain Amasa (2 Samuel 1:25). The name first came into general use in Britain in the 16th century, under Puritan influence. It was a common name in literature for a lady's maid, for example in Beaumont and Fletcher's play The Scornful Lady ( 1616 ). The biblical Abigail refers to herself as ‘thy servant’ in addressing King David. In Ireland this name has traditionally been used as an Anglicized form of Gobnat , although the reasons for this are not clear. It was popular in the 17th century, especially among Puritans and Nonconformists, and has again enjoyed considerable favour since the 1990s.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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