Brief Life History of Catherine
Catherine Buchanan was born in 1835. She married John Stark on 26 August 1866, in Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1880. She died on 18 September 1907, in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 72.
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- Cathrine Stark, "United States Census, 1900"
- Kate Bachanan, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Kate in entry for Martha J. Stark, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Scottish (western Scotland): habitational name from Buchanan in Stirlingshire, perhaps named with Gaelic buth chanain ‘house of the canon’.
Irish: adopted for Ó Buadhachanáin, see Bohannon .
History: This is the name of a Scottish clan associated with lands on the eastern shores of Loch Lomond and in the Lennox. — The name Buchanan was brought independently to North America from Scotland by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. George Buchanan came to MD in 1698. — James Buchanan (1791–1868), 15th President of the US (1857–61), was born near Mercersburg, PA, the son of a successful land speculator and store keeper, who had emigrated to PA from Scotland in 1783.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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