Maryette Rowley

Brief Life History of Maryette

When Maryette Rowley was born on 25 March 1842, her father, Richard John Rowley, was 26 and her mother, Delilah Weaver, was 24. She married Robert Cook Weaver on 12 October 1876, in McHenry, Illinois, United States. She lived in Nunda Township, McHenry, Illinois, United States in 1870 and Mina, Chautauqua, New York, United States for about 5 years. She died on 16 April 1914, at the age of 72, and was buried in Ridgefield Cemetery, Ridgefield, McHenry, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Cook Weaver
1826–1915
Maryette Rowley
1842–1914
Marriage: 12 October 1876

Sources (7)

  • Mary E Weaver in household of Robert B Weaver, "New York State Census, 1905"
  • Maryette Rowley, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
  • Maryette Rowley, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1846

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

1848 · Chicago Board of Trade

Starting as a voluntary association to help buyers and sellers meet to negotiate and make contracts. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the oldest futures and options exchanges in the world and is open 22 hours per day . 

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from one or more of various places called Rowley or Rowly, such as Rowley Regis (Staffordshire), Rowley (Devon, Durham), Rowleygreen Farm (Hertfordshire), Rowly (Surrey), Rowley (East Yorkshire), Rowley, near Bardsey (Yorkshire), Rowley in Lepton (Yorkshire), and Rowley Hill (Essex). The placenames probably all derive from Old English rūh ‘rough’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, though the East Yorkshire place may have been named with hlāw ‘mound, hill’ as the second element.

Irish: from Ó Roghallaigh, a variant of Ó Raghailligh. See Riley and O'Reilly .

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

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