When Chapman Leopold Dales was born on 25 June 1880, in Grenville, Canada West, British North America, his father, William Dales, was 40 and his mother, Ann Chapman, was 37. He married Margaret Jemina Smith on 11 November 1904, in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Augusta Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 15 September 1916, in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 36, and was buried in Augusta Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
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English (Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire): variant of Dale , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): nickname for a needy person, from Hebrew dalus ‘poverty’.
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