When Benjamin Gardiner was born in 1829, in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Benjamin Gardner, was 50 and his mother, Elizabeth "Betty" Smith, was 39. He married Esther Prestwich on 7 July 1850, in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He immigrated to United States in 1854 and lived in Judicial Township 5, Placer, California, United States in 1870 and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. He died on 17 February 1914, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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.
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English and Scottish: variant of Gardner .
History: Lion Gardiner came from England in 1635 to Saybrook, CT, the settlement of Earl of Warwick patentees at the mouth of the Connecticut River, and built a fort there. Born in 1636, his son, David, was the first white child born in the settlement. Lion later bought the Isle of Wight, now Gardiners Island, from the Indians, and moved his family there until 1653, when he bought land in what is now Easthampton, Long Island, NY.
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