When Reverand John Bilbo was born on 8 May 1806, in Mississippi, United States, his father, Major Thomas Joel Bilbo, was 29 and his mother, Anna Marie Lawrence, was 18. He married Jane Ann Stevenson on 14 April 1832, in Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Claiborne, Louisiana, United States in 1830 and Natchitoches, Louisiana, United States in 1840. He died on 22 May 1855, in Lake Charles, Calcasieu, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Bilbo Cemetery, Lake Charles, Calcasieu, Louisiana, United States.
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Louisiana was divided into 19 parishes (rather than counties or boroughs) on March 31, 1807. Currently, there are 64 parishes in Louisiana.
Mississippi is the 20th state.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Altered form of French Bilbaud, itself a shortened form of Billebaud: nickname from a compound of bille ‘(billiard-)ball’, in a transferred sense also ‘testicle’, and baud ‘bold’.
In some cases possibly also English: variant of Bilboe, a Staffordshire surname, apparently a nickname from Early modern English bilbo, which denoted a type of fine sword, derived from an Anglicized form of the name of the Spanish city and port of Bilbao. This surname is rare in Britain.
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