Brief Life History of Henry
When Henry Sherk was born in 1842, in Humberstone, Welland, Ontario, Canada, his father, George Sherk, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Hershey, was 28. He married Mary Hobson on 12 March 1867, in Niagara Falls, Welland, Ontario, Canada.
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- Serie Sherk, "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"
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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.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1883 · Mining Boom
In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of Swiss German Schürch: nickname for a person with a slow, shuffling gait and an overall easy going nature, from Middle High German schürgen ‘to push, to shove’ (later ‘to drive, to attack’). Compare Scherich , Sharick , Sherick , Sherrick , and Shirk .
Americanized form of German Scherk: unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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