When Charles Stapley Jr was born on 28 November 1824, in Rolvenden, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, Charles Stapley, was 24 and his mother, Sarah Bryant, was 22. He married Sarah Parkinson on 24 July 1854, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He immigrated to New South Wales, Australia in 1838 and lived in Springdale, Washington, Utah, United States in 1880 and Rockville, Washington, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 20 April 1904, in Toquerville, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Toquerville, Washington, Utah, United States.
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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.
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On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
English (Kent and Sussex): habitational name from a lost place called Stapele recorded in the 13th century in the manor of Wootton in East Chiltington (Sussex). The placename probably derives from Old English stapol ‘post, pillar’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’; the reference may have been to a place where timber was got for posts.
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Thomas Parkinson was born on December 11, 1830, in Cambridgeshire, England, the second son of James Parkinson and Elizabeth Chattle. His father, James, was born in the not-too-distant hamlet of Farcet …
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