Brief Life History of Mary Ann
When Mary Ann Knox was born in 1832, in Spittal by Tweedmouth, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, her father, Peter Knox, was 50 and her mother, Dorothy Smith, was 51. She lived in Berwick, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom in 1851.
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- Mary Ann Knox in household of William Gray, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Mary Ann Knox, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Mary Ann Knox, "England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920"
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World Events (8)
1832 · Worcester v. Georgia
In 1830, U.S. President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which required all Native Americans to relocate to areas west of the Mississippi River. That same year, Governor Gilmer of Georgia signed an act which claimed for Georgia all Cherokee territories within the boundaries of Georgia. The Cherokees protested the act and the case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, Worcester v. Georgia, ruled in 1832 that the United States, not Georgia, had rights over the Cherokee territories and Georgia laws regarding the Cherokee Nation were voided. President Jackson didn’t enforce the ruling and the Cherokees did not cede their land and Georgia held a land lottery anyway for white settlers.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English (Northumberland and Durham): from a genitive or plural form of Old English cnocc ‘round-topped hill’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a hilltop, or a habitational name from any of the places in Scotland and northern England named with this element, now spelled Knock, in particular one in Renfrewshire.
Scottish: habitational name from any of the places in Scotland named with Gaelic cnoc ‘hill’, for example Knock in Renfrewshire. It is not possibly to disentangle this from the surname derived from the English etymon mentioned in 1 above.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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