Brief Life History of Kathleen May
When Kathleen May Davenport was born on 24 June 1935, in Kintore, New Brunswick, Canada, her father, Daniel Joseph Davenport, was 34 and her mother, Mamie Maude 'Mimi' McLean, was 27. She married Artemas Vincent Cronkhite on 4 April 1955, in Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 25 September 2003, in Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 68, and was buried in Mckenzie Corner United Baptist Cemetery, McKenzie Corner, Richmond, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada.
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- Kathleen May Davenport Cronkhite, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (4)
1937 · Miramichi Strike
August 20, 1937, the Miramichi lumber strike took place. Over 1,500 millworkers and longshoremen struck 14 lumber firms for wage increases.
1955 · Recorder Low Temperature
In 1955, New Brunswick broke the record with a freezing temperature of -47.2° C, in Sisson Dam
1982
Canada Act is passed. The United Kingdom transfers final legal powers over Canada. The country adopts its new constitution, which includes a charter of rights.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Cheshire): habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Davenport, from the Dane river (apparently named with a Celtic cognate of Middle Welsh dafnu ‘to drop, to trickle’) + Old English port ‘market town’.
Irish: in Tipperary, this is an English surname adopted by bearers of Munster Gaelic Ó Donndubhartaigh ‘descendant of Donndubhartach’, a personal name composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + dubh ‘black’ + artach ‘nobleman’.
History: John Davenport (died 1670) arrived in Boston, MA, in 1637. He came of an English Cheshire family associated with Capesthorne Hall, near Macclesfield.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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