Brief Life History of Elva Mae
When Elva Mae Hartley was born on 28 April 1905, in Norwich, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, her father, Miles Hartley, was 34 and her mother, Nellie Edith Jull, was 24. She married Clifford Alexander Burns on 7 December 1935, in North Norwich Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada in 1931. She died on 22 December 1977, at the age of 72, and was buried in Pine Hills Cemetery, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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- Elva Mae Hartley, "Canada Census, 1931"
- Elva Mae Hartley, "Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
- Elva Mae Hartley Burns, "Find a Grave Index"
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World Events (6)
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
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.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name, in northern England mainly from Hartley in Rochdale parish (Lancashire) but also from any of the places called Hartley in Westmorland and the West Yorkshire. In southern England it derives Hartley in Devon, Hampshire, and Kent, and from Hartleigh in Devon. Similar placenames occur in Berkshire, Dorset, and Northumberland, but it is not known if they gave rise to surnames. Most of the placenames derive from Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, though the Westmorland placename comes from Old English heard ‘hard’ + clā ‘claw, tongue of land’, and the Northumberland placename derives from Old English heorot + hlāw ‘mound, hill’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArtghaile ‘descendant of Artghal’, a personal name composed of the elements Art ‘bear’ or ‘hero’ + gal ‘valor’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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