Brief Life History of Margaret
Margaret Sawers was born on 9 January 1819, in North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom as the daughter of Henry Sawers and Janet Hope. She married Michael Joseph Roeschlaub on 10 October 1843, in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in North Berwick, Haddingtonshire, Scotland in 1819. She died on 23 March 1892, in Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States, at the age of 73.
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- Margaret Roeschlant in household of Michael Roeschlant, "United States Census, 1870"
- Margaret Sawers, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Margareth Sawers in entry for Robert Sawers, "Germany, Bavaria, Catholic Church Records, 1650-1875"
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1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1825
Historical Boundaries: 1825: Pike, Illinois, United States 1825: Adams, Illinois, United States
1839 · From Swamp to Beautiful Place
By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.
Name Meaning
Scottish: variant of Sawer with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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