Brief Life History of Carter Thomas
When Carter Thomas Buckley was born on 11 December 1809, in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States, his father, William Henry Buckley, was 37 and his mother, Mary Polly Webb, was 31. He married Sarah Ann Ward on 10 May 1847, in Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Tallahatchie, Mississippi, United States in 1880. He died in June 1884, in Teasdale, Tallahatchie, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 74.
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- Carter Buckley in household of James C. Buckley, "United States Census, 1880"
- Carter Thomas Buckley, "Find A Grave Index"
- Carter Buckley, "Mississippi, State Archives, Various Records, 1820-1951"
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World Events (8)
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · Kentucky Bend Created
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
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.
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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