Brief Life History of Prudence Marilla
When Prudence Marilla Burdick was born on 11 March 1842, in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Benjamin Burdick, was 43 and her mother, Mary Polly Kenyon, was 38. She married Nathan Henry Saunders on 2 April 1864, in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Rhode Island, United States in 1870. She died on 14 June 1887, in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 45.
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- Prudence Saunders in household of Nathan Saunders, "United States Census, 1880"
- Saunders, "Rhode Island, Vital records, 1846-1898, 1901-1953"
- Prudence M Burdick in household of Benjamin Burdick, "United States Census, 1850"
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World Events (7)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1862 · US Naval Academy
The US Naval Academy was moved to Newport, Rhode Island from its original in Annapolis, Maryland on May 9, 1862.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (Middlesex): nickname from an unrecorded Middle English burre-dokke ‘burdock’, the name of a prickly plant with burrs and dock-like leaves (usually Arctium lappa), common on waste ground. It may have been given to someone of a prickly temperament or perhaps to someone with a hoarse voice.
Possibly also an Americanized form of Dutch Boerdijk: habitational name from a settlement named Boerdijk, composed of boer ‘peasant, farmer, countryman’ and dijk ‘dike’.
History: Robert Burdick was a freeman of Newport, RI, in 1655.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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