Brief Life History of Mattie Louisa
Mattie Louisa Buckley was born on 25 July 1861, in Lisbon, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States as the daughter of Wm. Bukley and Sarah M. She married Myron Levi Blake on 1 January 1881, in Whitefield, Coös, New Hampshire, United States. She lived in New Hampshire, United States in 1870 and Littleton, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States in 1880.
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- Martha S Berkley in household of William Berkley, "United States Census, 1880"
- Martha Louisa Bukley, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Mattie L. Berkley, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places so named, most of which are from Old English bucc ‘buck, male deer’ or bucca ‘he-goat’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Places called Buckley and Buckleigh, in Devon, are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + clif ‘cliff’.
English: in Somerset perhaps alternatively, a variant of the now extinct Bugley, a habitational name from Bugley in Dorset or Wiltshire, named from the Old English female personal name Bucge + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buachalla ‘descendant of Buachaill’, a byname meaning ‘cowherd, servant’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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