Brief Life History of Catherine C.
When Catherine C. Cross was born on 26 December 1786, in Charlestown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Peleg Cross, was 27 and her mother, Catherine Congdon, was 27. She married Walter Perry about 1810, in Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 13 June 1858, in South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 71.
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- Catharine C. Perry, "Rhode Island Town Births Index, 1639-1932"
- Catherine Cross in entry for Walter Perry, "Rhode Island, Vital records, 1846-1898, 1901-1953"
- Catey C. Cross, "Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
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1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1790 · 13th State
On May 29, 1790, Rhode Island becomes the last of the original 13 colonies to become a state.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a cross, such as one set up by the roadside or in a marketplace, from Middle English cros (Old English cros and Old Norse kross, ultimately from Latin crux, crucem). It is commonly Latinized in medieval records as ad crucem and de Cruce but examples of this can just as well belong to the synonymous but less common name Crouch . In a few cases the surname may have been given originally to someone who lived by a crossroads, but this sense of the word seems to have been a comparatively late development. In other cases, the surname (and its European cognates; see 3 below) may have denoted someone who carried the cross in processions of the Christian Church, but in English at least the usual word for this sense was Crozier .
Irish: shortened form of McCrossen .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cross’ or ‘the cross’, such as French Lacroix , German Kreutz , and Slovenian and Croatian Križ (see Kriz ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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