Brief Life History of Lydia Agnes
When Lydia Agnes Houck was born on 11 February 1838, in New Salem, New Scotland, Albany, New York, United States, her father, Richard Dirk Houck, was 39 and her mother, Laura Winslow, was 39. She married Angus Matheson on 23 January 1863, in Oxford, Ontario, Canada. She lived in Pickering, Ontario, Ontario, Canada in 1851 and West Zorra Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1871.
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- Lydia Matheson in household of Augus Matheson, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Lydia Houk, "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"
- Lydia Houck, "Canada Census, 1851"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
German: northern variant of Hauck and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Flemish: variant of Hoeck .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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