When William Lidney Pressey was born on 7 October 1884, in Bayham, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, his father, Elias James Pressey, was 29 and his mother, Eliza Sarah Amelia Rusling, was 18. He married Lila Axford on 10 April 1912, in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1884. He died on 5 September 1936, in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 51.
English: from Middle English prest, pri(e)st ‘priest’ + hei(e), hai(e) ‘fence, enclosure’ (Old English prēost, (ge)hæg), probably denoting a piece of enclosed church land. The name may be topographic, for someone who lived by such a plot, or habitational, from a minor place so named, such as Priesthay Wood Farm in Wappenham, Northamptonshire.
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