Brief Life History of Ella Kate
When Ella Kate Wortman was born on 3 July 1877, in Boundary Creek, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada, her father, Samuel Hart Wortman, was 37 and her mother, Catherine Elinor Steeves, was 29. She married Martin Cathcart Donaldson on 19 May 1914, in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. She lived in Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada in 1881 and Salisbury, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada in 1891. She died on 10 November 1955, in Central Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 78, and was buried in Nelson Memorial Park, Central Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada.
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Family Time Line
Sources (10)
- Kate Wortman in household of Samuel A Wortman, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Ella Kate Wortman, "New Brunswick Late Registration of Births, 1810-1899"
- Ella Kate Wortman, "British Columbia Marriage Registrations, 1859-1932; 1937-1938"
Spouse and Children
1878–1957 Male
1877–1955 Female
Parents and Siblings
1841–1917 Male
1849–1905 Female
Siblings (8)
1864–1919 Female
1869–1953 Male
1875– Female
1875–1958 Female
1877–1955 Female
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World Events (4)
1880 · Legislature in Fredericton Destoryed by Fire
Age 3
1901 · Hartland Covered Bridge
Age 24
1937 · Miramichi Strike
Age 60
Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of vegetables or of medicinal herbs and spices, from Middle English wurt, wort ‘plant’ + man ‘man’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a reliable person who could be trusted to keep his word, from Yiddish vort or German Wort ‘word’ + man ‘man’.
Americanized form of German Wortmann .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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