Brief Life History of Elisabeth
When Elisabeth Wick was born on 2 January 1802, in Ohio, United States, her father, Rev William Wick, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth McFarland, was 32. She died on 13 February 1835, at the age of 33.
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1803
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English wik(e) (Old English wīc) ‘building; enclosed piece of land; dependent farm where a certain kind of work is done’. In placenames the term is frequently combined with words associated with food production, as in Butterwick ‘butter wick’, Chiswick ‘cheese wick’, Cowick ‘cow wick’, Hardwick ‘herd wick’, Gatwick ‘goat wick’, Shapwick ‘sheep wick’, Goswick ‘goose wick’, Berwick ‘barley wick’, Fishwick ‘fish wick’. The most common sense is ‘dairy farm’. The surname may be topographic or occupational, denoting someone who lived or worked at a wick (compare Wicker ), or habitational, denoting someone who lived at or came from a place called Wick (of which there are examples in Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire), Wyke (Devon, Dorset, Surrey, Yorkshire), or Week (Cornwall, Devon, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Somerset).
German: from a medieval personal name Wicko, a short form of any of various ancient Germanic personal names formed with the element wīg ‘battle, war’.
German: habitational name from Wick (Westphalia) or any of the places called Wieck or Wiek.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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