Brief Life History of John Brennan
John Brennan Delaney was born on 18 September 1864, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as the son of John J Delaney and Catherine Brennan. He married Bertha Maude Ziegler on 24 November 1896, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Lansing Township, Ingham, Michigan, United States in 1900. He died on 6 January 1936, in Lansing, New Hope, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan, United States.
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- John B Delaney, "United States Census, 1900"
- John B Delaney, "Michigan, Marriages, 1822-1995"
- John B. Delaney, "Find a Grave Index"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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.
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
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Aileen, Cormac, Clancy, Colm, Conley, Conor, Dermot, Donal, Eamon, Eamonn, Finbar.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Laney with fused preposition de.
Irish: Anglicized form, influenced by the Norman name, of Gaelic Ó Dubhshláine ‘descendant of Dubhshláine’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + slán ‘challenge, defiance’. MacLysaght, however, suggests that this element may be from the Sláinge river.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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