Brief Life History of John
John Worley was born in 1794, in Boon Hill Township, Johnston, North Carolina, United States. He married Julia Johnson in 1841, in Johnston, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Beulah Township, Johnston, North Carolina, United States in 1880. He died in 1893, in Boon Hill Township, Johnston, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 99.
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- John Worley, "United States Census, 1850"
- John Worley in entry for Julia Crocker, "North Carolina Deaths, 1906-1930"
- John Worley, "United States Census, 1860"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1799 · Gold Nuggets Found
"In 1799, in Little Meadow Creak located in Cabarrus County, North Carolina a large yellow """"rock"""" was found by Conrad Reed. A few years later it was determined that the """"rock"""" was a gold nugget."
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name with different origins. In the West Midlands this surname is most probably derived from Great or Little Wyrley in Norton Canes (Staffordshire). The placenames derive from Old English wīr ‘bog myrtle’ + lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’. In the East Midlands, the name is possibly from Worlick in Ramsey (Huntingdonshire), the etymology of the which is uncertain. In northern England, possibly from Whirley in Over Alderley (Cheshire), which has the same etymology as the Staffordshire names. There may also be a further unlocated source of this habitational name in southern England.
possibly an irregular variant of Wortley or Warley .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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