Brief Life History of Elinor Adelaide
When Elinor Adelaide Kirby was born on 20 November 1838, in South Carolina, United States, her father, John Tolleson Kirby, was 39 and her mother, Martha Patsy Peterson, was 38. She had at least 1 son with John B. Sanders. She lived in Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States in 1850 and Bartholomews, Colleton, South Carolina, United States in 1860. She died about 1898, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 61.
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Sources (2)
- Elinor A Kirby in household of John Kirby, "United States Census, 1850"
- Adelade Kirby in entry for Burwell Glover Sanders, "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1943"
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World Events (7)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860
In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern and eastern England called Kirby or Kirkby, from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + bȳ ‘farmstead, village’.
Irish: adopted for Ó Garmhaic ‘descendant of Cíarmhac’, a personal name meaning ‘dark son’. Compare Kerwick .
Irish: Anglicized form of Mac Geirble ‘son of Geirble’, a personal name of uncertain origin. The name is preserved in the townland name of Carrowkeribly in County Mayo.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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