Mary Manville

FemaleApril 1838–

Brief Life History of Mary

When Mary Manville was born in April 1838, in Connecticut, United States, her father, Garry Manville, was 31 and her mother, Philanda Gibson, was 32. She lived in Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1850.

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Family Time Line

Garry Manville
1807–
Philanda Gibson
1807–1892
Emily Manville
1836–
Mary Manville
1838–
Lewis C. Manville
1847–
Livia A. Manville
1849–

Sources (1)

  • Mary Manvill in household of Garry Manvill, "United States Census, 1850"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (4)

World Events (8)

1846

Age 8

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

1848 · Slavery is Abolished

Age 10

In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Age 32

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English (Sussex and Lancashire): variant of Mandeville .

Altered form of Mainville 1, a surname of Swiss French origin (see Miville ).

French: variant of Menville, a habitational name from Menville in Haute-Garonne, and also of Mainville 2.

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

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