Rhoda Salisbury

Brief Life History of Rhoda

When Rhoda Salisbury was born about 1815, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Marmaduke Salisbury, was 54 and her mother, Clarissa Smith, was 48. She married Joseph Austin about 1835, in Harmony Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died in Harmony Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Austin
1805–
Rhoda Salisbury
1815–
Marriage: about 1835
Albert Austin
1836–
Lucy N. Austin
1838–1898
Nancy Austin
1839–1898
Lydia Austin
1841–

Sources (1)

  • Rhoda Austin in entry for Alfred Tobey and Lucy Austin, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"

World Events (8)

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. 

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.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

English (Lancashire): habitational name primarily from Salesbury in Blackburn (Lancashire) but also occasionally from Salisbury (Wiltshire). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English salh ‘willow, sallow’ + burg ‘fortress’, while the Wiltshire placename arises from a shortened form of the Celtic placename Sorviodunum (from an unknown initial element + Celtic dūno- ‘fort’). In the Old English period the second element was dropped and Sorvio- (of unexplained etymology) became Searo- in Old English as the result of folk etymological association the Old English word searu ‘trick’; to this an explanatory burh ‘fortress, manor, town’ was added. The city is recorded in the Domesday Book as Sarisberie; the change of -r- to -l- is the result of later dissimilation.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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