Peter Sunderland Jr.

Brief Life History of Peter

When Peter Sunderland Jr. was born in 1779, in Brooke, Stafford, Virginia, United States, his father, Peter Sunderland, was 42 and his mother, Catherine Holman, was 33. He married Mary Ely on 2 March 1802, in Belmont, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died after 22 December 1812.

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Family Time Line

Peter Sunderland Jr.
1779–1812
Mary Ely
1778–1855
Marriage: 2 March 1802
Christian Sunderland
1803–
Edward Sunderland
1809–
Catherine Sunderland
1809–1864
Emeline Sunderland
1810–1898
Peter Sunderland III
1812–1891
John Sunderland
1813–
Nancy Sunderland
1815–
William Sunderland
1815–

Sources (21)

  • U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820. Peter Sunderland. Petition to Congress
  • Peter Sunderland, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
  • Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1950. Emeline Beard (Emeline Sonderland)

World Events (2)

1780 · Richmond Becomes the Capital

On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.

1803

Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name primarily from High Sunderland in Northowram, Halifax (Yorkshire), but occasionally from other places so called, for example in Durham, Cumberland, Lancashire, and Northumberland. The placenames derive from Old English sundor-land ‘land set apart for some special purpose, private land, detached land’ (sundor ‘asunder, apart’ + land ‘land’). Compare Sunderlin .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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