Brief Life History of William Palmore
When William Palmore Guthrie was born on 24 November 1800, in Cumberland, Virginia, United States, his father, John Guthrey, was 21 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane Palmore, was 19. He married Sally A. Coleman on 24 November 1819, in Buckingham, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Maysville, Buckingham, Virginia, United States in 1850 and Tyler District, Charles City County, Virginia, United States in 1860. He died on 3 March 1861, in Buckingham, Virginia, United States, at the age of 60.
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- Wm P Guthrie, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Palmore Guthrie - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: William Palmore Guthrie
- Wm. P. Guthrey, "Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1853-1912"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1812 · Monumental Church Built
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place near Forfar, named in Gaelic with gaothair ‘windy place’ (a derivative of gaoth ‘wind’) + the locative suffix -ach.
Scottish: possibly an Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mag Uchtre ‘son of Uchtre’, a personal name which is perhaps akin to uchtlach ‘child’.
Irish (Clare and Antrim): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Fhlaithimh ‘descendant of Flaitheamh’, a byname meaning ‘prince’. This is the result of an erroneous association of the Gaelic name in the form Ó Fhlaithimh (Fh being silent), with the Gaelic word laithigh ‘mud’, and of mud with gutters, and an equally erroneous association of the Scottish surname Guthrie with the word ‘gutter’. Compare Laffey .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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