Brief Life History of Judith
When Judith Keck was born on 5 August 1817, in Western Salisbury, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Benjamin M Keck, was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth Klein, was 26. She married Charles Hiskey in Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 4 November 1849, in Salisbury Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, at the age of 32, and was buried in Western Salisbury, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Judith Hisky or Keck, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
- Judith Keck, "Pennsylvania Civil Marriages, 1677-1950"
- Judith Hisky, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Deaths and Burials, 1856-1971"
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World Events (6)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
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.
Name Meaning
English (Gloucestershire): nickname from the Middle English reflex of the Old Norse personal name Keikr (from Old West Scandinavian keikr ‘bent backwards’) or Kekkja.
English (Gloucestershire): nickname, possibly from keck, backformed from kex, used through much of southern England as the name of a range of umbelliferous plants having a hollow stalk when dried, for instance cow parsley, cow parsnip, and hemlock, as well as teasel (with parallels in Scandinavia).
German: nickname from Middle High German kēc ‘lively, active’ (cognate of English quick), which later changed its meaning to ‘bold, forward, fresh’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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