When Mary Ann Marden was born on 16 August 1808, in Chichester, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, her father, John Marden, was 35 and her mother, Rachel Shaw, was 33. She married Caleb Moulton on 30 October 1829, in Pittsfield, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 16 October 1890, in Hopkinton, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in New Hopkinton Village Cemetery, Hopkinton, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States.
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Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
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English: habitational name from any of several places so called in Kent, Essex, Surrey, Hertfordshire, and Sussex, or from Meriden (Warwickshire) or Merriden Farm (Surrey). Marden (Kent) derives from Old English (ge)mǣre ‘boundary, border’ + denn ‘woodland pasture’. Marden Ash (Essex) and The Mardens in Caterham (Surrey) derive from Old English (ge)mǣre + Old English denu ‘valley’, denoting a valley that formed a border such as a parish boundary. Marden Hill in Tewin (Hertfordshire), Marden Park in Godstone (Surrey), Meriden (Warwickshire), and Merriden Farm in Dorking (Surrey) all denote ‘pleasant valley’, from Old English myrig + Old English denu. East Marden, North Marden, and Up Marden (Sussex) derive from Old English (ge)mǣre ‘boundary’ + dūn ‘hill’.
English: habitational name from Marden in Herefordshire. The place takes its name from the district name Maund (see Maund ) + Old English worthign ‘enclosure’.
English: perhaps occasionally a habitational name from Marden in Wiltshire. The placename probably means ‘fertile valley’, from Old English mearg ‘marrow, fat’ + denu ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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