Brief Life History of William
When William Sutherland was born on 18 March 1804, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, his father, Silas Sutherland, was 27 and his mother, Sarah Ann Cummins, was 18. He married Nancy White on 26 August 1823, in Lawrence, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Jackson Township, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Indiana, United States in 1870. He died on 24 July 1885, in Waymansville, Jackson Township, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Bartholomew, Indiana, United States.
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- Wm Sutherland, "United States Census, 1880"
- William Sutherland, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- William Sutherland, "Find A Grave Index"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1821
Historical Boundaries: 1821: Bartholomew, Indiana, United States
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Caithness): habitational name from the Scottish county of Sutherland, named with Old Norse súthr ‘south, southern’ + land ‘land’ because the territory lay south of Scandinavia and the Norse colonies in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
History: This is the name of a Highland Scottish clan associated with the county of Sutherland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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