When William H Bethurem was born in 1843, in Kentucky, United States, his father, James Bethurum, was 55 and his mother, Mary Leese, was 45. He married Edna Curry on 1 May 1884, in Fannin Land District, Texas, United States. He lived in Independence, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Norman, Cleveland, Oklahoma, United States in 1910. He died after 1910.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Probably the most successful of all the Old French names of Germanic origin that were introduced to England by the Normans. It is derived from Germanic wil ‘will, desire’ + helm ‘helmet, protection’. The fact that it was borne by the Conqueror himself does not seem to have inhibited its favour with the ‘conquered’ population: in the first century after the Conquest it was the commonest male name of all, and not only among the Normans. In the later Middle Ages it was overtaken by John , but continued to run second to that name until the 20th century, when the picture became more fragmented.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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