Brief Life History of Edward
Edward Mansfield was born about 1805, in Pennsylvania, United States. He married Charlotte Woodward about 1845, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Washington Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. He died in 1877, at the age of 73.
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- Edward Mansfield, "United States Census, 1850"
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World Events (7)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place so named in Nottinghamshire. The placename means ‘open land by the river Maun’, from the river name Maun (which may take its name from a hill named with Old English mamme ‘teat’) + Old English feld ‘open country’.
Irish (Waterford): when not an importation of 1, this is an altered form of the Norman name de Manville (see Mandeville 3).
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Mansfeld, a habitational name from a place so called in Saxony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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