When Charles Holtzclaw was born in 1805, in Fauquier, Virginia, United States, his father, John Holtzclaw, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth R. Tancill, was 24.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
Americanized form of German Holzklau, which translates into modern German as ‘wood thief’, but is probably a nickname for someone who gathered wood, from Middle High German holz ‘wood’ + a derivative of klūben ‘to pick up, gather, steal’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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