Nancy Ann Shelley

Female1825–1880

Brief Life History of Nancy Ann

When Nancy Ann Shelley was born in 1825, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Isaac Shelley, was 41 and her mother, Magdalena Meyer, was 38. She had at least 3 sons and 5 daughters with Samuel Hood Milligan. She lived in Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. She died in 1880, in Middletown, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Middletown, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Hood Milligan
1821–1870
Nancy Ann Shelley
1825–1880
Ann E Millegan
1846–
Mary Milligan
1848–
James M Milligan
1852–1944
Samuel M Milligan
1856–
Emma Milligan
1861–
Rebecca Milligan
1861–
Clara M Milligan
1863–
Edward Clayton Milligan
1866–1945

Sources (3)

  • Ann Millegan in household of Samuel Millegan, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Nancy Milligan in household of Samuel Milligan, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Ann Milligan in household of S H Milligan, "United States Census, 1870"

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Children (8)

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World Events (7)

1825 · The Crimes Act

Age 0

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.

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Age 5

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.

1846

Age 21

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of the three places called Shelley (Essex, Suffolk, Yorkshire) or from Shelley Plain in Crawley (Sussex). The placenames all derive from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

Irish (Laois): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Sealbhaigh ‘descendant of Sealbhach’, a byname from the adjective sealbhach ‘having possessions, wealthy’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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