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==Early life and family== He was born in [[Ballymena]], County Antrim, [[History of Ireland (1801β1923)|Ireland]] (now [[Northern Ireland]]). His parents were Scottish Protestants, John Eaton and Margaret Craig. As a 20-year-old Irish apprentice shopkeeper, Timothy Eaton sailed from Ireland to settle with other family members in southern [[Ontario]], Canada. On 28 May 1862, Eaton married Margaret Wilson Beattie. They had five sons and three daughters. Among the sons were [[John Craig Eaton]] and Edward Young Eaton. One of the daughters, Josephine Smyth Eaton, survived the sinking of [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']] off the Irish coast in 1915. His granddaughter, Iris Burnside, was lost in that sinking.
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