Margaret Ireland

Brief Life History of Margaret

When Margaret Ireland was born in 1744, in New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Joseph Ireland, was 31 and her mother, Elizabeth Losee, was 28. She married Joshua Brush on 23 July 1764, in Huntington, Huntington, Suffolk, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 30 May 1822, in Huntington, Huntington, Suffolk, New York, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Melville, Huntington, Suffolk, New York, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joshua Brush
1743–1781
Margaret Ireland
1744–1822
Marriage: 23 July 1764
Abel Brush
1765–1841
Philip Brush
1768–1849
Susanna Brush
1769–1857
Jonathan Brush
1774–1837

Sources (3)

  • Margeret Ireland, "New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962"
  • Margaret Ireland Jarvis, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Ancestry Family Trees

World Events (6)

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

1776

New York is the 11th state.

1786 · Shays' Rebellion

Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: ethnic name denoting someone from Ireland, from Middle English Irland, Irlond, Erlond (Old English Īraland). The country gets its name from the genitive case of Old English Īras ‘Irishmen’ + land ‘land’. The stem Īr- is taken from the Celtic name for Ireland, Èriu, earlier Everiu. The Latin name was (H)ibernia. The surname is especially common in Liverpool, England, which has a large Irish population. Compare Irish .

Americanized form of Erland .

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

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