Brief Life History of Amelia D'Autremont
When Amelia D'Autremont Lockwood was born on 11 December 1819, in Pound Ridge, Pound Ridge, Westchester, New York, United States, her father, Horatio Gates Lockwood, was 40 and her mother, Bethia Close Lockwood, was 28. She married James Betts about 1840. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States for about 32 years. She died on 3 June 1906, at the age of 86.
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- Annlea D Betts in household of James Betts, "United States Census, 1870"
- Amelia D Lockhart in entry for Harriet B Kendall, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924"
- Amelia D Betts in household of James Betts, "United States Census, 1860"
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World Events (8)
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1829 · Farmington Canal Opened
Farmington Canal spans 2,476 acres, starting from New Haven, Connecticut, and on to Northampton, Massachusetts. The groundbreaking for the canal was in 1825 and opened in 1829.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from one of three places called Lockwood, one in Yorkshire, one in North Yorkshire and another in Staffordshire. The Yorkshire and Staffordshire placenames both derive from Old English loc ‘lock, enclosure, fold’ + wudu ‘wood’. The North Yorkshire placename derives from Old English loc + Old Norse vithr ‘wood’. The surname appears to have migrated to East Anglia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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