Brief Life History of Mary Polly
When Mary Polly England was born on 10 November 1817, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Jesse England, was 30 and her mother, Isabella Henderson Fryer, was 29. She married Stephen Coleman Pistole on 27 December 1836. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 12 January 1861, in White, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Tennessee, United States.
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- Mary Pistole in household of S C Pistole, "United States Census, 1860"
- Mary Pistole, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mary England in entry for James Henderson Pistol, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"
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World Events (6)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Middle English Engelond ‘England’. It was probably a formal alternative to English , which is also well evidenced as a surname in England. These names may have been acquired by English landowners who moved in Norman social circles or who lived in a neighbouring country (Scotland, Wales, or Ireland), or by English merchants who traded abroad.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of various farmsteads so named, from Old Norse eng ‘meadow’ + land ‘land’.
Swedish: ornamental name with the same meaning as 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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