When Emma Eliza Dudman was born on 7 February 1872, in Galway Township, Peterborough, Canada West, British Colonial America, her father, John Frederick Dettman, was 52 and her mother, Jane McGuire, was 40. She married Duncan Molyneaux on 4 December 1895, in Bobcaygeon, Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Victoria, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Peterborough, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 8 October 1957, in Kinmount, Northumberland, Upper Canada, British Colonial America, at the age of 85, and was buried in Kinmount, Northumberland, Upper Canada, British Colonial America.
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English (Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire): variant of Dodman, from the Middle English personal name Dudeman (Old English Dudemann, first element of uncertain origin).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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