Sophia Lawrence

Brief Life History of Sophia

When Sophia Lawrence was born on 10 April 1794, in Nelson, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Joshua Lawrence, was 40 and her mother, Ruth Nims, was 34. She married Breed Osgood on 6 December 1811, in Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 4 August 1836, in Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Four Corners Cemetery, Sullivan, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States.

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Family Time Line

Breed Osgood
1785–1826
Sophia Lawrence
1794–1836
Marriage: 6 December 1811
Sophia Osgood
1815–1815
Charles Osgood
1816–1819
George Osgood
1818–1819
Charles Osgood
1820–1889
George Osgood
1823–1825

Sources (29)

  • Sophia Lawrance, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
  • Sophia Lamreuce, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
  • Sophia Osgood, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

1803

France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

Name Meaning

English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Lorens, Laurence, from Latin Laurentius ‘man from Laurentum’, a place in Italy probably named from its laurels or bay trees. The name was borne by a Christian saint who was martyred at Rome in the 3rd century AD ; he enjoyed a considerable cult throughout Europe, with consequent popularity of the personal name (French Laurent, Italian, Spanish Lorenzo, Catalan Llorenç, Portuguese Lourenço, German Laurenz, Polish Wawrzyniec, etc.). In Britain this is a common name from the 12th century, with pet forms such as Law , Low , Lawrie , Laurie , Larry , Larkin , all of which are represented in surnames. There was also a feminine form Laurencia which may have given rise to the English surname. The surname is also borne by Jews among whom it is presumably an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Ashkenazic surnames. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages, e.g. German Lorenz , and also their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Slovenian Lavrenčič and Lovrenčič (patronymics from Lavrencij and Lovrenc, equivalents of Lawrence), Polish Wawrzyniak . Compare Larrance , Laurence , Lawerence , Lieurance , and Lowrance .

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

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