Brief Life History of Joanna
When Joanna English was born in December 1820, in Kinzua Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John English Jr., was 31 and her mother, Mary Hamlin, was 27. She married James O. Gunning about 1844, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Kinzua (historical), Mead Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Warren, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. She died in 1902, in Kinzua Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Kinzua Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Joanna Yamming, "United States Census, 1900"
- Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1970
- Ancestry Family Trees
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1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Welsh: ethnic name from Middle English English, Inglish, Inglis ‘English’ (Old English Englisc), sometimes alternating with Anglo-Norman French Engleis, Engles, Anglais, Angles (Old French Englois). Compare Inglis and England . Among the aristocracy and upper gentry it marked out a man of English ancestry from one of Norman or continental origin. In counties bordering England with Scotland and Wales the name distinguished an Englishman from a Scot or a native Welshman on both sides of the border. The name may also have been acquired by English merchants who traded abroad or who lived and worked in a ‘French’ borough in England (one exclusively administered by Normans).
Irish: in Ireland, this name was used to denote an Englishman, often being adopted for Irish Aingléis ‘Englishman’ or through mistranslation for Mac an Ghallóglaigh, see Gallogly and Golightly .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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