Brief Life History of Alfred Vernum
When Alfred Vernum Bicknell was born in 1845, in East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Alfred Bicknell, was 30 and his mother, Salley Potter, was 31. He married Elizabeth A Proctor on 29 June 1867, in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Rhode Island, United States in 1870 and Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States for about 30 years. He died in 1913, in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States.
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- *urnum A Bicknell in household of Alfred Bicknell, "United States Census, 1850"
- Albert Bicknall, "Rhode Island, Marriages, 1724-1916"
- Albert Vernum Bicknell, "Find A Grave Index"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · Slavery is Abolished
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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Bickenhill in Warwickshire, Bickenhall in Somerset or Bignell in Oxfordshire. The former two are named with the Old English personal name Bicca + Old English hyll ‘hill’, but in the Somerset name the final element alternates with Old English h(e)all ‘hall’. Bignell is named with the Old English personal name Biga + hyll ‘hill’. Compare Bignell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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