Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Beswick was born on 5 October 1814, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Beswick, was 8 and her mother, Mary Henshall, was 18. She married Peter Bell about 1829, in Middlewich, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. She died on 18 January 1891, in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Elizabeth Beswick in household of Joseph Beswick, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Elizabeth Beswick, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Elizabeth Beswich Bell, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1819 · Peterloo Massacre
On August 16, 1819, in St. Peter’s Field, Manchester, England, a group of around 80,000 gathered together in an attempt to get parliament representation reformed. Shortly after a cavalry charged the crowd. By the end, 15 people died and around 600 were injured.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places in Lancashire and East Yorkshire named Beswick. The second element is Old English wīc ‘outlying (dairy) farm’ (see Wick ). The first element of the Lancashire name may be an Old English personal name Bēac; that of the Yorkshire name is possibly an Old Norse personal name Bōsi or Besi.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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