Brief Life History of Catharine
When Catharine Moyer was born on 17 January 1825, in Clinton, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada, her father, Samuel S Moyer, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Frey Wismer, was 28. She married Christian H Honsberger on 19 March 1848. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 3 May 1891, in Louth, St. Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 66, and was buried in Mennonite Mountain Burial Ground, Campden, Lincoln, Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
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- Catharine Honsberger in household of Christian H Honsberger, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Catherine Moyer Honsberger, "Find a Grave Index"
- Catharine Moyer in entry for Amanda Housberger, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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World Events (4)
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
Americanized form of German Meyer or Mayer .
French: status name for a sharecropper, from an angent derivative of Old French moie ‘half’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of Dutch Mooijer: surname associated with Maaijer, an occupational name for a mower or reaper (see Maier ). However, almost all bearers come from Volendam (North Holland), where the surname originated as Pooijer, possibly a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman (peurder) or a nickname for someone carrying a ponjaard ‘dagger’. The surname was changed to Mooijer due to the connotation with Dutch pooier ‘bully, fancy-man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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