When Caroline W. Morris was born on 25 December 1843, in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Thomas Morris, was 44 and her mother, Mercy Crosby, was 44. She married Joshua Leland Rider about 1863, in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. She lived in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States in 1850. She died on 25 June 1907, in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery and Mausoleum, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English and Scottish: from Maurice, an Old French personal name introduced to Britain by the Normans. It is derived from Latin Mauritius, a derivative of Maurus (see Moore ). This was the name of several early Christian saints. In some cases it may be a nickname of the same derivation for someone with a swarthy complexion.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muirghis, a variant of Ó Muirgheasa (see Morrissey ).
Welsh: Anglicized form of the personal name Meurig (from Latin Mauritius), which was gradually superseded in Wales by Morus, Morys, a derivative of the Anglo-Norman French form of the name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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