When Gideon Williamson was born on 28 January 1811, in Pughtown, South Coventry Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Thomas Taylor Williamson, was 25 and his mother, Mary Smith, was 22. He had at least 10 sons and 2 daughters with Elizabeth Heyworth Levis Williamson. He lived in Birmingham Monthly Meeting, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. He died in April 1874, at the age of 63, and was buried in Birmingham Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
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.
English (Northern) and Scottish: from the Middle English personal name William + patronymic -son ‘son of William’. This surname is also found in Northern Ireland (Ulster), especially in Antrim.
Americanized form of Norwegian, Danish, and North German Wilhelmsen , Swedish Wilhelmsson, or Dutch and North German Willemsen , all cognates of 1.
History: This surname was brought to North America from northern England and northern Ireland independently by numerous different bearers from the 17th century onward. Timothy Williamson is recorded in Plymouth Colony in 1643.
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