Mary Ann Moss

Brief Life History of Mary Ann

When Mary Ann Moss was born on 27 April 1789, in Virginia, United States, her father, Rev. William Boaz Moss, was 26 and her mother, Lucretia Lydia Glasscock, was 24. She married James Calvert. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 4 May 1855, in Campbell, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 66.

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Family Time Line

James Calvert
1782–1855
Mary Ann Moss
1789–1855
Marriage:
Bledsoe Calvert
1809–1869
Lydia Ann Calvert
1810–1850
Moss Calvert
1818–1852
Isaac Calvert
1823–
Mildred Calvert
1833–
James Calvert
1813–1852
Nancy Ann Calvert
1825–1909
Isaiah S Calvert
1826–1891
William Ransom Calvert
1830–1904
Zeno Calvert
1840–

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  • Mariah A Calvert in household of James Calvert, "United States Census, 1850"

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World Events (8)

1791

Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.

1791 · The Bill of Rights

After the Constitution was made, some objections were raised by Anti-Federalists. So, in response ten amendments were discussed and voted on to become The Bill of Rights. These rights were made to clarify and guarantee certain freedoms of residents of the country.

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

Name Meaning

English: topographic name from Middle English mos ‘moss, bog’ (Old English mos), for someone who lived at a boggy place, or a habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as Moss (Yorkshire), Mose in Quatford (Shropshire), and Moze (Essex).

English: variant of Moyse .

Irish (Ulster): adoption of the English name 1 by translation for Ó Maolmóna or Ó Maolmhóna ‘descendant of Maolmóna’, a personal name based on maol ‘servant, tonsured one, i.e. devotee’ + a second element assumed to be móin (genitive móna) ‘moorland, peat bog’, in local English ‘moss’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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