Brief Life History of Miranda Barnwell
When Miranda Barnwell Duncan was born on 18 January 1827, in Bath, Kentucky, United States, her father, Henry Duncan, was 50 and her mother, Mary Combs, was 46. She married James Heatherly Barnett on 20 September 1844, in Madison, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Lebanon Township, Cooper, Missouri, United States in 1870 and La Monte, Pettis, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 1 May 1881, in Appleton City, St. Clair, Missouri, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Appleton City Cemetery, Appleton Township, St. Clair, Missouri, United States.
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- Miranda B Barnett in household of James H Barnett, "United States Census, 1870"
- Miranda B Duncan, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Maranda Barnwell Duncan Barnett, "Find A Grave Index"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1830 · Louisville and Portland Canal Opens
The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Dunecan, itself from the traditional Irish royal name Donnchad(h), derived from donn ‘brown-haired’ + cath ‘battle’. Judging by the Scots form, the Scottish Gaelic intermediary seems to have been understood as containing ceann ‘head’, as if the whole name meant ‘brown head’; compare sense 2. In Ireland the name was Anglicized as Donagh or Donaghue. Compare Donahue .
Irish: used as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn ‘descendant of Donncheann’, a byname composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + ceann ‘head’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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