Eliza Lajoie

Brief Life History of Eliza

Eliza Lajoie was born on 6 January 1888, in Canada as the daughter of Louis Lajoie and Marie Provencal. She married Allen Leonard Lancaster on 14 April 1914, in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Palmer, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1920 and Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1930. She died on 9 April 1931, in Holyoke, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Saint Rose de Lima Cemetery, Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.

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Family Time Line

Allen Leonard Lancaster
1890–1978
Eliza Lajoie
1888–1931
Marriage: 14 April 1914
Mildred Lancaster
1916–2009
Leon Allen Lancaster
1917–1979
Roland Edward Lancaster
1919–1994
Erma Jean Lancaster
1920–2004

Sources (11)

  • Alice Lancaster, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Eliza Lajoie, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
  • Mrs Elsie Lajole Lancaster, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

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World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

1890 · Woman's Suffrage

An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Marcel, Herve, Normand, Andre, Cecile, Jacques, Pierre, Adrien, Alcide, Alphonse, Andree.

French: nickname for a happy, cheerful person, from joie ‘joy’, with fused feminine definite article la. Compare Lashua and Lashway .

History: In North America, this surname was in most cases originally a secondary surname or dit (‘also called’) name, borne by several 18th-century French Canadians.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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