Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Westwood was born on 4 January 1819, in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Thomas Westwood, was 26 and her mother, Margaret Dorwart, was 20. She married Alexander Wiley on 15 December 1839, in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 10 July 1900, in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Margaret Wiley in household of Alex Wiley, "United States Census, 1880"
- Margaret Westwood Wiley, "Find A Grave Index"
- Margarett Wiley in household of Alexander Wiley, "United States Census, 1860"
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World Events (7)
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.
1820 · Making Land more affordable
"The United States law requiring full payment at the time of purchase and registration of any land. to help encourage sales and make land more affordable, Congress reduced the minimum price of dollar per acre and the minimum size that could be purchased. Most of this land for sale was located on the frontier which was then ""The West"". This Act was good for many Americans, but it was also over used by wealthy investors."
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name habitational name for someone who lived ‘by the west wood’ (Middle English west + wode), or who came from any of numerous places called Westwood (from Old English west ‘west’ + wudu ‘wood’), such as those in Kent, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, or Worcestershire.
History: William Westwood was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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