Brief Life History of Julia Caroline
When Julia Caroline Franklin was born on 23 September 1802, in Charles, Maryland, United States, her father, John Downing Franklin, was 28 and her mother, Ann (Nancy) Lloyd Franklin, was 30. She married William Byrne Zinn about 1818. She lived in Preston, Henry, Virginia, United States in 1850. She died on 9 December 1882, in Valley District, Preston, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 80.
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- Julia C Zinn in household of William B Zinn, "United States Census, 1860"
- Julia C. Zinn, "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999"
- Juliet Caroline Franklin, Guardian appointed, Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYMF-2DN?cc=1803986&wc=SNY8-4WG%3A146535701%2C148290201
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1812 · Monumental Church Built
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
1824 · """Mary Randolph Publishes """"The Virginia Housewife"""""""
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
Name Meaning
English: status name from Middle English frankeleyn ‘freeman, freeholder, land-owner of free but not noble birth’ (Anglo-Norman French fraunclein). In general, he was a gentleman ranked above the main body of minor freeholders but below a knight or a member of the nobility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames, such as Frankel .
History: The American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) was the son of Josiah Franklin, a chandler (dealer in soap and candles), who had emigrated c. 1682 from Ecton, Northamptonshire, to Boston, MA, where his son was born.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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