Brief Life History of Rebecca
When Rebecca Martin Stanley was born about 1837, in England, United Kingdom, her father, William Stanley, was 15 and her mother, Elizabeth Martin, was 22. She married Edmund Bown on 16 April 1856, in Gawler, South Australia, Australia. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She immigrated to Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia in 1852 and lived in Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 2 April 1891, in Wallaroo, South Australia, Australia, at the age of 55, and was buried in Kadina Cemetery, Kadina, South Australia, Australia.
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- Rebecca Martin in household of William Stanly, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Legacy NFS Source: Rebecca Martin - Published information: birth: about 1837; England, United Kingdom
- Rebecca Martin Bown, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (7)
about 1837
George Grey explores Western Australia.
1841
George Grey appointed Governor of South Australia.
1854 · The Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.
English: variant of Marton .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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