Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Duke was born on 20 April 1807, in Greensburg, Green, Kentucky, United States, her father, David I Duke, was 34 and her mother, Elizabeth Miller, was 24. She married William Mathis Sr on 3 October 1825, in Green, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons. She lived in Iowa, United States in 1870 and Douglas Township, Polk, Iowa, United States for about 5 years. She died on 15 April 1888, in Elkhart, Polk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Elkhart Cemetery, Elkhart, Polk, Iowa, United States.
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- Elizabeth Mathis in household of G W Mathis, "United States Census, 1880"
- Elizabeth Mathis in household of Birtha Mathis, "Iowa State Census, 1885"
- Elizabeth Duke, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Kentucky Bend Created
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
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
English: nickname from Middle English duk(ke), duck, doke, dook ‘duck’ (Old English dūce), either from a perceived resemblance (perhaps a waddling gait) or from association with wild fowling. Compare Duck , Drake .
English: from the Middle English personal name Duk or Duke. In northern England this is usually a pet form of Marmaduke. It may alternatively be a survival of one or more Old English personal names, though it is uncertain whether they were still current in the period of surname formation. Old English Ducc(a) is attested in placenames like Duxford (Cambridgeshire) and Duckington (Cheshire), and was perhaps interchangeable with Docc, attested in Doxey (Staffordshire) and Doxford (Northumberland). Duke could also represent Old English Deowuc (as in Deuxhill, Shropshire). A surname from Marmaduke is on record until at least 1881 and derives from the personal name Marmaduke, apparently an Anglo-Norman French pronunciation of Old Irish Maolmaedóc ‘devotee of Maedóc’; see Duckett .
Americanized form of Polish Duk: nickname from dukać ‘to stammer or falter’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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