When Violet Victoria Elizabeth Dryden was born on 24 May 1907, in Cambridge, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, her father, Andrew Dryden, was 38 and her mother, Christy Ann Rutherford, was 36. She lived in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 23 March 1922, in Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 14, and was buried in Cambridge, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
English (Northumberland and Durham) and Scottish: habitational name from either from Dryden in Roxburghshire or Dryden near Roslin in Midlothian, perhaps named from Old English dr̄ge ‘dry’ + denu ‘valley’. The poet John Dryden (1631–1700) was born in Northamptonshire, after his ancestors had migrated there from Cumbria in the 16th century.
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