Brief Life History of John Henry
When John Henry Mahood was born on 7 April 1852, in Cartwright, Northumberland and Durham, Ontario, Canada, his father, James Mahood, was 28 and his mother, Sarah Jane McQuade, was 17. He married Lucinda Brown on 22 December 1875, in Durham, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 26 February 1900, in Bruce, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 47, and was buried in Kincardine, Bruce, Ontario, Canada.
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- John H Mahood, "Ontario Census, 1861"
- Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1913
- John Henry Mahood, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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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
Irish: shortened form of MacHood, an altered form of Irish Ó hUid ‘descendant of Ud’, in which Ó ‘descendant’ has been replaced by Mac ‘son’. Compare Hood 5. The name was taken by 19th-century Irish migrants to south-west Scotland and north-west England.
English: variant of Maude 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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The following was transcribed from the Kincardine Reporter, in reference to a former resident of this Township
John H. Mahood, lot 9 Lake range, Huron Township, passed away as the result of blood poisoning, on Monday, February 26th, after a week's illness, borne with Christian faith, hope and charity he was bo …
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