Brief Life History of Sidney
When Sidney Andrews was born on 6 July 1806, in Rome Township, Jefferson, Illinois, United States, his father, Nathaniel Seymour Andrews, was 43 and his mother, Abigail Rice, was 40. He married Margaret C. "Mary" O'Melveny on 30 December 1828, in Jefferson, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Jefferson, Illinois, United States in 1850. He died on 8 April 1854, in Dix, Jefferson, Illinois, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Rome Township, Jefferson, Illinois, United States.
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- Sidney Andrews, "United States Census, 1850"
- Sidney Andrews, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- S. Andrews, "Find A Grave Index"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1818
Illinois is the 21st state.
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Andrew , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This is the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the Scottish and northern English form is Anderson . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Polish Andrzejewski , Slovenian Andrejčič, Serbian and Croatian Andrić (see Andric ), and Czech Ondráček (see Ondracek ).
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis or Irish Mac Aindriú, see McAndrew .
History: This was a common name among the early settlers in New England. Robert Andrews emigrated in 1635 from Norwich, England, to Ipswich, MA. Even before 1635, one Thomas Andrews is recorded as being established in Hingham. A certain William Andrews was a member of John Davenport's company, which sailed from Boston in 1638 to found the New Haven colony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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