Brief Life History of William Ashburn
When William Ashburn Forbes was born on 27 November 1870, in Huxley, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Ashburn Forbes, was 68 and his mother, Jane Douglass Tench, was 36. He married Nellie King on 7 March 1897, in Notting Hill, London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Canada in 1912 and lived in Morden, Surrey, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and Peace River, Alberta, Canada in 1926. He died on 3 April 1957, in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 86.
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- Wm A Forbes in household of Jane Forbes, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
- William Ashburn Forbes, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- William Ashburn Forbes, "British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993"
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1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
1905
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Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Forbes in Tullynessle, Aberdeenshire, so named from Gaelic forba ‘field, district’ + the locative suffix -ais. The placename is pronounced in two syllables, with the stress on the second, and the surname until recently reflected this. Today, however, it is generally a monosyllable.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Firbhisigh ‘son of Fearbhisigh’, a personal name composed of elements meaning ‘man’ + ‘prosperity’.
History: A family of this name (see 2 above) in Connacht was famous for its traditional historians, compilers of the Book of Lecan.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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