Brief Life History of Olive Grace
When Olive Grace Hayter was born on 10 January 1913, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, her father, John Alexander Hayter, was 50 and her mother, Daisy Susan Young, was 34. She had at least 2 sons with Charles Patrick Short. She died on 14 February 1968, in her hometown, at the age of 55, and was buried in Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery, Burlington, Halton, Ontario, Canada.
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- Olive Grace Hayter Short, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (4)
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.
1955 · General Motors Auto Workers Strike
From 1955-1956, around 17,000 workers for General Motors went on strike. They wanted a pay raise, more secure working conditions, and a health plan half paid by General Motors. The strike lasted 148 days.
Name Meaning
English (southern):
nickname from Old French hait(i)er, haitour, heitur ‘entertainer, merrymaker’, an agent noun derived from Old French, Anglo-Norman French hait(i)er, heit(i)er ‘to make glad, please, entertain’.
in northern England perhaps a variant of Eatough with prosthetic H-, a habitational name from Ayothalgh, a lost minor placename in Altham (Lancashire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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