Brief Life History of Ann
When Ann Robinson was born on 13 December 1815, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, William R. Robinson, was 41 and her mother, Sarah Witcher, was 20. She married Joseph Tinkham on 15 December 1841, in Kirkwood, Warren, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Tompkins Township, Warren, Illinois, United States in 1860. She died on 15 September 1897, in Warren, Illinois, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Center Grove Cemetery, Tompkins Township, Warren, Illinois, United States.
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- Ann Tinkham in household of Joseph Tinkham, "United States Census, 1880"
- Sarah Ann Robinson Tinkham, "Find A Grave Index"
- Tinkham, Jeremiah Information from Historical and biographical record of Monmouth and Warren county, Illinois
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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.
1825
Historical Boundaries: 1825: Warren, Illinois, United States
1839 · From Swamp to Beautiful Place
By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): patronymic from the Middle English personal name Robin , a pet form of Robert , + -son. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
French: from a pet form of the personal name Robin .
West Indian (including Haiti) and Guyanese: most likely not (only) of English or French origin as in 1 above and 2 above, but also, if not mostly, from the related name of the famous Daniel Defoe's literary character Robinson Crusoe (from a novel first published in 1719).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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