Robert York

Brief Life History of Robert

When Robert York was born on 2 March 1851, in Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States, his father, Robert York, was 22 and his mother, Sarah Anne Bennett, was 19. He married Addie Alfretta Danforth on 22 September 1877, in Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Norway, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years and Paris, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States in 1930. He died on 8 July 1930, in Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Methodist Cemetery, Cumberland, Cumberland, Maine, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert York
1851–1930
Addie Alfretta Danforth
1854–1900
Marriage: 22 September 1877
Gertrude Addie York
1878–1950
William Robert York
1880–
Mary Ella York
1885–1912
Dorothy Alvetta York
1889–1918
James Gly York
1893–1962

Sources (30)

  • Robert York in household of Theodore Saunders, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Robert York, "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996"
  • Robert York, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1854

Historical Boundaries: 1854: Androscoggin, Maine, United States

1863

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

1872 · The First National Park

Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.

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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