Brief Life History of Mary Witham
When Mary Witham Norton was born on 22 October 1813, in Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine, United States, her father, Stephen Norton, was 24 and her mother, Mehitable Witham, was 16. She married Willard Fisher on 12 December 1833, in Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 26 August 1864, in Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine, United States, at the age of 50.
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- Mary Fisher in household of Willard Fisher, "United States Census, 1850"
- Mary Witham Norton, "Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Mary Witham Norton, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907"
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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
Maine is the 23rd state.
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: habitational name from any of the many places so called, from Old English north ‘north’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. In some cases it is a variant of Norrington .
Irish: altered form of Naughton , assimilated to the English name (see 1 above).
Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of some similar (like-sounding) original Ashkenazic surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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