Every
holiday, like at Christams, ancestry.ca sends out a press release
where they usually talk about surnames that have some relation to the
holiday at hand.
This
time its names associated with Easter – like Easter, or Bunny, for
example.
The press release says that Ancestry.ca 'has
gone on the hunt through its collection of millions of historical
Canadian records and discovered some seasonal and festive Canadians
from history who may have been popular at this time of year. One name
that stands out is Miss Esther Agg, from Ontario, who is just one of
the historical Canadians with Easter names'.
They say that from their database, more than 17,000 birth, marriage and death records for Bunnys,
including Mr. James W. Bunny who was born in 1877 in Bowmanville,
Ontario, but his records show that he lived in Winnipeg later in
life, and more than 32,000 records for those with the surname Easter, such as
Mr. Samuel Easter, born in 1841. He is seen in the 1911 Census of
Canada, living in Grenville, Ontario.
You
can find these name at www.ancestry.ca/
