Brief Life History of Ellen
When Ellen Brandon was born on 9 March 1828, in North Crawley, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Brandon, was 48 and her mother, Ann Salisbury, was 39. She married John Josiah Read on 20 November 1849, in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 15 October 1904, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- 1881 English Census Ellen Read in household of Josiah Read, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
- Ellen Read, "Utah, County Birth and Death Records,1892-1951"
- 1904 Oct 15 Ellen Read, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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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.
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EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER: Josiah Nelson BIRTH 1841 Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA DEATH 1841 (aged less–than 1 year) Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA BURIAL Ogden City Cemetery Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 240526232 · View Source
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Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Weber, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Weber, Utah, United States
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Brandon, in Durham, Norfolk, Suffolk, Warwickshire, and elsewhere. Most are named with Old English brōm ‘broom, gorse’ + dūn ‘hill’. One in Lincolnshire, however, may be named after the Brant River, on which it stands; Ekwall derives the river name from Old English brant ‘steep’, presumably with reference to its steep banks. This surname was known in Ireland early enough to have a Gaelicized form de Breandún.
Irish (Kerry): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Breandáin ‘son of Breandán’, a rare Kerry surname from the Latinized form of the name of the local saint, Brendan (Brendanus from Bréanainn).
French: from the Old French oblique case of the personal name Brando, of ancient Germanic origin (see Brand 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Notes About My Great Grandmother, Ellen Brandon Read by Gayle Couch Dudley
I, Gayle Couch Dudley, interviewed my grandmother,Catherine M. Read Couch in the summer of 1954 asking her about her parents. These are the notes I recorded: "Ellen Brandon was born on 9 March …
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