Brief Life History of Catherine
When Catherine Marr was born in 1840, in Murphy, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, her father, William M. Marr, was 24 and her mother, Sarah Adeline De Hart, was 24.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Catharine Mann in household of William L Mann, "United States Census, 1850"
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World Events (3)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1853 · First State Fair
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from the district of Mar in Aberdeenshire, an ancient tribal name probably based on a Brittonic personal name Marsos. There may have been confusion with Mair 2.
English: habitational name from one or other of various places called from Old Norse marr ‘fen, marsh’, such as Marr, High and Low Marr in Wheldrake, and The Marrs in Swine (all Yorkshire).
German: from the ancient Germanic personal name Marro.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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