Brief Life History of Mary Ellen
When Mary Ellen Boyle was born on 30 September 1869, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Patrick Boyle, was 38 and her mother, Hannah, was 25. She married Franklin Weaver Read on 10 July 1895, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She lived in Summit Hill, Carbon, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. She died on 21 March 1916, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Mary Ellen Boyle in household of Patrick Boyle, "United States Census, 1880"
- Boyle, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Marriage Indexes, 1885-1951"
- Ellen Reed in entry for Eleanor Reed, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Births, 1860-1906"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Liam, Declan, Fergus, John Patrick, Padraic, Seamus, Aileen, Brigid, Cathal, Colm, Conn.
Irish (Donegal): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Baoighill ‘descendant of Baoigheall’, a personal name of uncertain meaning, perhaps from baoth ‘rash’ + geall ‘pledge’.
Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Biéville, near Caen, Normandy, formerly Boiavilla. The Boyle earls of Glasgow, lords of Kelburne (Ayrshire) are descended from Adam son of Gilbert son of Richer de Boiville. In 12th-century England, men named de Boiville held land in Millom and Saint Bees, Cumberland, and were associated with grants of land in Gloucestershire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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