When Bridgetta Barr Montroy was born about 1848, in Minersville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Andrew Barr, was 39 and her mother, Roseanna McAdams, was 38. She married Stephen Montroy on 1 January 1873, in Manayunk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. She died on 14 August 1916, in Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Saint John The Baptist Catholic Church Cemetery, Manayunk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Scottish (Glasgow) and northern Irish (Ulster): habitational name from any of various places in southwestern Scotland, in particular Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, named with Gaelic barr ‘height, hill’ or a Brittonic cognate of this.
English and Welsh: habitational name from Great Barr in Staffordshire. This is from Brittonic barro- ‘top, summit’, referring to Barr Beacon; there is evidence that this was known as la Bare in the 13th century.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Barre-en-Ouche in Eure, France, or perhaps from Barre-de-Semilly in Manche, France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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