Theresa Cecelia Doran

Brief Life History of Theresa Cecelia

When Theresa Cecelia Doran was born on 17 February 1901, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, her father, Michael Joseph Doran, was 35 and her mother, Margaret Jane Fant, was 24. She married John Allen Sevey on 12 August 1919, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in San Antonio Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 14 July 1986, in Maywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Allen Sevey
1899–1944
Theresa Cecelia Doran
1901–1986
Marriage: 12 August 1919
Edna Louise Sevey
1922–1992
Elizabeth Lorraine Sevey
1924–2007
Gloria Ann Sevey
1930–2002

Sources (27)

  • Theresa C Sevey, "United States, Census, 1950"
  • Cecelia Doran, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • Theresa Cecelia Doran, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"

World Events (8)

1902 · So Much Farm Land

A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.

1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Irish James Patrick, Kieran, Pegeen, Brendan, Caitlin, Dymphna, Dympna, Lorcan, Roisin, Siobhan.

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deoradháin ‘descendant of Deoradhán’, a byname representing a diminutive of deoradh ‘pilgrim, stranger, exile’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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