Brief Life History of Margarett
When Margarett Oakes was born in 1786, in Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States, her father, Daniel Oakes, was 30 and her mother, Catherine Oakes, was 25. She married Moses Kirby on 8 August 1820, in Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 20 November 1859, in Snow Creek, Franklin County, Virginia, United States, at the age of 73.
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- Margarett Kirby, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Margaret Oakes, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"
- Margarett Kirby, "Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1853-1912"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1788 · Becomes the 10th state
On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name, a variant of Oak with either an original plural -s or an excescent -s added later to the surname.
Irish (Louth, Wexford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dubhdara ‘son of Dubhdara’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘dark’ + dara(ch), genitive of dair ‘oak’, by translation of the main element of the Gaelic name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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