Brief Life History of Gertrude Addie
When Gertrude Addie York was born on 22 July 1878, in Island Pond, Brighton, Essex, Vermont, United States, her father, Robert York, was 27 and her mother, Addie Alfretta Danforth, was 24. She married Albert Francis Maddocks on 10 November 1896, in West Cumberland, Cumberland, Cumberland, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Canton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1910 and United States in 1949. She died on 24 August 1950, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Gertrude A Lightfoot, "United States 1950 Census"
- Gertrude A. Maddocks, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
- Legacy NFS Source: Addie Gertrude York - Individual or family possessions: death: 24 August 1950; Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of York in northern England. The surname is now widespread throughout England. Originally, the city bore the Latin name Eburacum, which is probably from a Brittonic name meaning ‘yew-tree place’. This was altered by folk etymology to Old English Eoforwīc (from the elements eofor ‘wild boar’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’). This name was taken over by Scandinavian settlers, who altered it back to opacity in the form Jórvík or Jórk (English York, which became finally settled as the placename in the 13th century). The surname has also been adopted by Jews as an Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
In some cases also an American shortened and altered form of the East Slavic patronymic Yurkovich or its Croatian, Slovak, or Slovenian variants. Compare Yurk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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