Brief Life History of Florence Jean
When Florence Jean Ward was born on 18 October 1916, in Clinton, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada, her father, William John Leslie Ward, was 29 and her mother, Susannah Beatrice Nicholson, was 37. She married William John Latronico on 14 October 1935, in Wingham, Huron, Upper Canada, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 31 August 1994, in her hometown, at the age of 77.
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- Florence Jean Ward in the Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826
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1934 · Dionne Quintuplets Born
Born on May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets were the first set of quintuplets to survive infancy. The five girls were born two months prematuare and months later were taken from their parents by the Red Cross. In the 1940s they were returned to their family.
1943 · Conservative Party Wins Ontario Election
George A. Drew was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 1943, they won the Ontario election.
1955 · General Motors Auto Workers Strike
From 1955-1956, around 17,000 workers for General Motors went on strike. They wanted a pay raise, more secure working conditions, and a health plan half paid by General Motors. The strike lasted 148 days.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Middle English ward ‘watchman, guard’ (Old English weard, used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).
English: occupational name from Middle English warde ‘armed guard’ (Old English weard ‘watching, guarding’), with the same meaning as 1 above.
Irish: shortened form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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