Brief Life History of Henry Herbert
When Henry Herbert Knapp was born on 29 March 1879, in Rideau Lakes Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, his father, Charles Orville Orval Knapp, was 45 and his mother, Isabella Slack, was 34. He married Margaret May "Maggie" Hagen on 14 March 1904, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Alberta, Canada in 1916 and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1926. He died on 7 September 1957, in Gleichen, Wheatland County, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 78.
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- Henry Knapp, "Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1926"
- Henry Herbert Oknapp, "Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
- Henry Herbert Knapp, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (7)
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.
1886 · First Workmen's Comp Act
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
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Name Meaning
German: occupational or status name from the German word Knapp(e), a variant of Knabe ‘young unmarried man’. In the 15th century this spelling acquired the separate, specialized meanings ‘servant, apprentice’, and ‘miner’. This surname is also found elsewhere in central Europe, e.g. in Czechia and Slovakia, where it is more commonly spelled Knap (compare 3 below).
German: in Franconia, a nickname for a dexterous or skillful person, of the same ultimate origin as 1 above.
Germanized or Americanized form of Polish, Czech, Slovak, Rusyn, and Slovenian Knap , a surname of ultimately German origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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