Brief Life History of Priscilla Rozella
When Priscilla Rozella Turley was born on 15 July 1862, in Minersville, Beaver, Utah, United States, her father, Frederick Turley, was 30 and her mother, Amelia Louisa Counsell, was 26. She married Stephen Douglas Maher on 14 June 1882, in Minersville, Beaver, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Colton Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1900 and Colton, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1920. She died on 15 November 1937, in San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Colton, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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- Rosilla P Maher in household of Steven D Maher, "United States Census, 1900"
- Rosella P Maher, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
- Rosella Turley in entry for Mahn, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
Irish (Down): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Toirdealbhaigh, a patronymic from the personal name Toirdhealbhach, a personal name based on an Irish form of the Old Norse name Thórr ‘Thunder’ + the Gaelic word dealbhach ‘like, in the shape of’. Compare McCurley , from the lenited form of the same name.
Altered form of German Thurley, from a personal name formed with Old High German tiuri ‘dear, valuable’ + līh (?), related to Gothic leiks ‘body, shape’.
English (Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire): variant of Thurlow or Trillo .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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brief history information for Frederick Turley family
found on Ann Laemmlen Lewis blog Frederick Turley was a brother to my Great-Great Grandmother, Charlotte Turley. In a letter from Dr. Joseph Soll Turley, we learn this about Frederick, son of Theodo …
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