Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Delaney was born in 1869, in Franklin Township, Houghton, Michigan, United States, her father, Patrick Shawn Delaney, was 37 and her mother, Mary Flynn, was 23. She died on 3 June 1870, in her hometown, at the age of 1.
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- Mary Delaney, "Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897"
- Michigan, U.S., Death Records, 1867-1952
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Aileen, Cormac, Clancy, Colm, Conley, Conor, Dermot, Donal, Eamon, Eamonn, Finbar.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Laney with fused preposition de.
Irish: Anglicized form, influenced by the Norman name, of Gaelic Ó Dubhshláine ‘descendant of Dubhshláine’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + slán ‘challenge, defiance’. MacLysaght, however, suggests that this element may be from the Sláinge river.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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