When Della May (Riley) Welch was born in April 1898, in Rappahannock, Virginia, United States, her father, William Thomas Riley, was 22 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Foster, was 18. She married Clifton Ashton Welch on 29 January 1917, in Rappahannock, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Wakefield District, Rappahannock, Virginia, United States for about 20 years. She died on 28 January 1920, in Rappahannock, Virginia, United States, at the age of 21.
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On March 11, 1899 the USS Shubrick was laid, on October 31, 1899 it was launched. The ship was named after William Branford Shubrick. It was sponsored by Miss Caroline Shubrick and commissioned in 1901 with Lt Allen M Cook in command.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name chiefly from High Ryley in Accrington (Lancashire) and Riley in Kirkburton, which was in the manor of Wakefield (Yorkshire). In some cases the name may derive from Riley Farm in Eyam (Derbyshire), Royley in Royton (Lancashire), or Rylah in Scarcliffe (Derbyshire). The placenames all come from Old English rȳge ‘rye’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish: from Ó Raghailligh ‘descendant of Raghailleach’, Old Irish Roghallach. This is the name of a chieftain family in Cavan, related to the O'Rourkes. In Anglicized form it has also been confused with Ó Raithile found in Munster, usually Anglicized as O'Rahilly or Rahilly . See O'Reilly .
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