Brief Life History of Jane Ellis
When Jane Ellis Delano was born in February 1841, in Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Ellis Delano, was 26 and her mother, Jane Ellis Standish, was 25. She married Silas Davenport on 21 November 1858, in Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1880 and Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years. She died in United States.
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- Jennie E. Davenport, "United States Census, 1880"
- Jane Ellis Delano, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Jane E. Delano in entry for Stillborn Davenport, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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
Americanized form of French, Walloon, and Flemish Delannoy .
History: Franklin D. Roosevelt's mother was a Delano, descended from Philippe de la Noye or de Lannoy (1602–81), born in Leiden in the Netherlands, who arrived at Plymouth, MA, in 1621 on the Fortune, one year after the Pilgrim Fathers. — This surname is listed along with its original forms de la Noye and de Lannoy in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors, referring to Jan or Jean de la Noye or de Lannoy from Tourcoing in northern France, the father of Philippe mentioned above. The same ancestor is also listed (as Jean de Lannoy) in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of America, besides Abraham de la Noy and Philippe de la Noy.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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