When William Ollerton was born on 5 June 1859, in Preston, Lancashire, England, his father, Seth Ollerton, was 32 and his mother, Jane or Jennett Rogerson, was 32. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Preston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. He died on 31 July 1925, in Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Thatcher Cemetery, Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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The Bacup Natural History Society was established in 1878 in Lancashire. It holds a collection of over 4,000 photos, slides, and documents. It holds many different artifacts from military to fossils.
English: habitational name from Ollerton in Lancashire. The placename derives from Old English alor ‘alder’ + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’. There are similarly named places in Cheshire, Nottinghamshire, and Yorkshire. Compare Allerton .
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