Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Ireland was born on 6 March 1864, in Glenwhirry, County Antrim, Ireland, his father, John Ireland, was 20 and his mother, Jane McClurkin, was 19. He married Hannah Letitia Purdy on 3 May 1887, in Springfield, Elgin, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 19 October 1926, in Brownsville, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 62.
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- Samuel Ireland in household of John Ireland, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Samuel Ireland, "Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881"
- Samuel Ireland, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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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.
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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
English and Scottish: ethnic name denoting someone from Ireland, from Middle English Irland, Irlond, Erlond (Old English Īraland). The country gets its name from the genitive case of Old English Īras ‘Irishmen’ + land ‘land’. The stem Īr- is taken from the Celtic name for Ireland, Èriu, earlier Everiu. The Latin name was (H)ibernia. The surname is especially common in Liverpool, England, which has a large Irish population. Compare Irish .
Americanized form of Erland .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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