When Martha Roberta Eagles was born on 4 October 1896, in Saint John, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, her father, Walter Melvin Eagles, was 36 and her mother, Margaret Carson, was 35. She lived in New Brunswick, Canada in 1911.
English: variant of Eagle , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Possibly also an Americanized form of French Eglise: topographic name for someone who lived near a church (Old French eclise, from Latin ecclesia).
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