My great-grandfather, Ralph Warren “Marcus” Sears was born May 24, 1885, and lived on Perth Road in Loughborough, Addington, Frontenac County. He was a Methodist. He died at on February 5, 1969, living to 83 years and 8 months. My uncle told me he remembers his grandfather to be an ornery man, with a quick …
After a couple years, back to my ancestry, and the Quackenbush family name. From quackenbush.com, site owner Erik Craig Quackenbush tells us a bit about this duck, sorry, Dutch, name and its roots. Quackenbush is a Dutch name. The first recorded use of the Quackenbush coat of arms was in 1529 by Dirk Aelbertszoon van Quackenbosch, …
P.T. Barnum is often quoted as saying “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Barnum’s biographer couldn’t find out exactly where the phrase originated, however it was more likely spoken in criticism against him and his customers rather than by himself. There may not be a sucker born every minute, but back in the day there …
Spelling Bees and Séances Spell AYKROYD. (without looking!) Can you pronounce it? (ˈeɪkˌrɔɪd ) Can I get the definition? According to Collins English Dictionary, Aykroyd is a noun, meaning “Dan”. Dan. born 1952, Canadian film actor and screenwriter, best known for the television show Saturday Night Live (1975–80) and the films The Blues Brothers (1980), Ghostbusters (1984), and Driving Miss Daisy (1989) Can you …
The Sears family name is derived, misspelled, translated, obscured, and Americanized into various forms. From ancestry.com, this blurb on the Sears name seems to simplify everything. Irish (Kerry): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Saoghair, which in turn may be a patronymic from a Gaelicized form of the Old English personal name Saeger (see 2 below). …