Brief Life History of Mary Ann
When Mary Ann Campbell was born on 2 June 1810, in Camus, Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland, her father, John Campbell, was 24 and her mother, Mary Kennedy, was 19. She lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. She died on 5 January 1885, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Yonkers, Westchester, New York, United States.
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Sources (5)
- Mary A Campbell in household of Rebecca Boyd, "United States Census, 1860"
- Mary Ann Campbell, "BillionGraves Index"
- Mary Ann Campbell, "New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1891"
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World Events (8)
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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