Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Buckland Bucklin was born on 27 April 1791, in Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Buckland, was 31 and his mother, Mary, was 28. He married Eliza Fellows on 24 November 1817, in Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Bloomfield, Walworth, Wisconsin, United States for about 5 years and Chester Township, Howard, Iowa, United States in 1860. He died on 10 July 1872, in Chester, Howard, Iowa, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Chester Hill Cemetery, Chester, Howard, Iowa, United States.
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- Thos Buckland, "United States Census, 1870"
- Thomas Bucklin, "Find A Grave Index"
- Thomas Buckland in entry for Milton Fellows, "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places in southern England (including nine in Devon) named Buckland, from Old English bōc ‘book’ + land ‘land’, i.e. land held by right of a written charter, as opposed to folcland, land held by right of custom.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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