Brief Life History of Nelly Belle
When Nelly Belle Perrin was born on 30 October 1917, in West Virginia, United States, her father, William Lawrence Perrin, was 38 and her mother, Alice Louise Roberts, was 32. She married "Fred" Frederick Bruce Anderson in 1937, in Wood, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Walker, Wood, West Virginia, United States in 1930 and Clay District, Wood, West Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 11 August 2006, at the age of 88, and was buried in Walker, Wood, West Virginia, United States.
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- Nellie B Anderson in household of Fred Anderson, "United States Census, 1940"
- Nelly Belle Perrin, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Nelly Belle Perrin Anderson, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
French and English: from the Old French and Middle English personal name Perrin, a pet form of Old French Perre, a variant of Pierre , French form of Peter . Compare Perine , Perrine , and Prine .
History: Henri Perrin from Louargat in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany (France), married Jeanne Merrin in Montreal, QC, in 1661. — This surname is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors (along with its variants or altered forms Perrine and Pareyn) and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of America. One of the Huguenot ancestors was Daniel Perrin (1642–1719), nicknamed The Huguenot, who arrived in New York in 1665, aboard the Philip, and settled first in NJ and later on Staten Island. Among his descendants the surname is common in the altered forms Perrine, Perine and Prine. The Staten Island community of Huguenot is named after Daniel Perrin and other Huguenots who settled in the area during the late 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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