Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane White was born in October 1807, in Waldo, Maine, United States, her father, Jonathan White, was 40 and her mother, Jane Patterson, was 33. She married David Whittier Lothrop in January 1832, in Waldo, Maine, United States. She died in 1841, at the age of 34, and was buried in Grove Cemetery, Belfast, Waldo, Maine, United States.
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- Mary Jane White, "Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Mary Jane White Lothrop, "Find a Grave Index"
- Mary Jane White Lothrop, "Maine, J. Gary Nichols Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1999"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English white, wit (Old English hwīt ‘white’), hence a nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion. In some cases it is perhaps from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Hwīta, a short form of names in Hwīt- (from hwīt ‘white’). The name may also be topographic, referring to someone who lived by a bend or curve in a river or road (from Old English wiht ‘bend’), the source of the placename of Great Whyte in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (compare Wight ). This name is also a variant of Wight . The surname White is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for any of several Irish and Scottish Gaelic names based on bán ‘white, fair’ (see Bain 1, McElwain ) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). The English surname has been Gaelicized in Ireland as de Faoite.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘white’, for example German Weiss , French Blanc , Polish Białas (see Bialas ), Slovenian Belec , or any other synonymous Slavic surname beginning with Bel-, Bev-, Biel- or Bil-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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