Brief Life History of Elizabeth Bailey
When Elizabeth Bailey Gordon was born on 17 December 1842, in Goulbourn, Carleton, Ontario, Canada, her father, John Gordon, was 51 and her mother, Margaret Moorhead, was 40. She married Samuel Lowry on 27 April 1881, in Carleton, Ontario, Canada. She lived in Carleton, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and Lanark, Ontario, Canada in 1901. She died on 13 July 1911, in Almonte, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 68, and was buried in Carp, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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- Eliza Lowry, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Elizabeth Bailey Gordon Lowry, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
- Legacy NFS Source: Elizabeth Baillie (Lizzie) Gordon - Cemetery record or headstone
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1859
Almonte, Ontario, is a former mill town. In 1998, Almonte was merged with Ramsay and Pakenham townships into Mississippi Mills. The name came into being in about 1859 with the creation of the Post Office in the village, which was named after Juan Almonte, a Mexican general.
1867 · Ontario Founded
On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
1869
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Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Gordon in Berwickshire, named with Welsh gor ‘spacious’ + din ‘fort’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Gourdon in Saône-et-Loire, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordus + the locative suffix -o, -ōnis.
English (of Norman origin): alternatively, said to be a nickname from a diminutive of Old French gourd ‘heavy, dull, sluggish’ (compare 8 below).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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