Brief Life History of Patience
When Patience Palmer was born on 23 January 1791, in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Noah Palmer, was 31 and her mother, Elizabeth Osborn, was 32. She married Thomas Bancroft on 25 August 1824, in New York, Wayne, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Rhode Island, United States in 1791. She died on 10 January 1856, in Walworth, Wayne, New York, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Baker Cemetery, Wayne, New York, United States.
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Sources (6)
- Patie*Ce Bancroft in household of Thomas Bancroft, "United States Census, 1850"
- Patience Palmer, "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
- Patience Palmer Bancroft, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1808
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.
1811 · USS Revenge
On January 9, 1811, the USS Revenge hits a reef off of Watch Hill, Rhode Island. The load the ship is carrying is handed off to other ships and the USS Revenge is tied down by tow ropes. It brakes free from the ropes and later sinks. In 2011 divers find what are believed to be the remains of the ship.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English palmer(e) ‘palmer, pilgrim to the Holy Land’ (Anglo-Norman French palmer, Old French pa(l)mer, paum(i)er), so called from the palm branch carried by such pilgrims. The term was also used to denote an itinerant monk who traveled from shrine to shrine under a vow of poverty. This surname is also common in Ireland, where it has been recorded from the 13th century onward.
Irish: when not of English origin (see 1 above), a surname adopted for Gaelic Ó Maolfhoghmhair (see Milford ), the name of an ecclesiastical family.
Swedish (mainly Palmér): ornamental name formed with palm ‘palm tree’ + the suffix -ér (a derivative of Latin -erius) or -er (from German).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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