Brief Life History of Matilda
When Matilda Ennis was born about 1861, in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Harry Ennis, was 29 and her mother, Sarah Sloan, was 28. She lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died on 14 May 1878, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 18.
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- Matilda Enos in household of Harry Enos, "United States Census, 1870"
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World Events (7)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Name Meaning
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Aonghuis ‘son of Angus’, see McGinnis and compare Angus and Hennessy .
English: perhaps a variant of Ince , or Henney with loss of initial H- and the addition of a post-medieval excrescent -s, or a variant of Enos .
Cornish: from any of various places in the western half of Cornwall called Ennis, Enys, Ninnes, etc., from Cornish (an) enys ‘(the) island’. The Saint Gluvias family is certainly from Enys in Saint Gluvias parish.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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