When Mary Jeanette Weld was born on 18 October 1849, in Stamford, Bennington, Vermont, United States, her father, James Washington Weld, was 30 and her mother, Mary Ann Millard, was 27. She married Chauncey John Whitney on 21 June 1874, in Vermont, United States. She lived in San Diego Township, San Diego, California, United States in 1940 and San Diego, San Diego, California, United States in 1946. She died on 13 January 1947, in San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Bonita, San Diego, California, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1850: San Diego, California, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English: topographic name from Middle English wo(u)ld(e), wald(e), weld(e) ‘wooded region, forested land, upland’ (see Wald , Wold ).
English (Dutch origin): in Eastern England, this name was perhaps a habitational name from Weld (Brabant), now Well in Limburg province (Netherlands).
History: Thomas Weld (1596–1661), born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, was an influential Puritan divine who emigrated from Terling, Essex, to Roxbury, MA, in 1632.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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