Brief Life History of Alice Snell
When Alice Snell Maw was born on 29 May 1859, in Hull, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edward Maw, was 50 and her mother, Christiana Snell, was 28. She married Moroni Strubell Poulter on 4 October 1887, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1930. She died on 17 July 1953, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Alice S Poulter, "United States 1950 Census"
- Alice Maw Poulter, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Alice S Maw in entry for Ephraim Poulter, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Lendal Bridge Opened
The Lendal Bridge was opened in 1863, after a previous failed attempt at building it Thomas Page was brought in to design it. It is an iron bridge styled with the gothic style popular in England. When it was first opened, it was a toll bridge but in 1894, it accepted it’s last toll.
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): from Middle English Maw(e), a pet form of the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Maheu (see Matthew ). Alternative derivation of Middle English Mawe from an Old English personal name Māwa is theoretically possible in northern England. Compare Mew .
English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): occasionally a variant of Mowe .
English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): topographic name meaning either ‘(dweller by) the meadow’, from an otherwise unrecorded Middle English word mawe, mowe ‘meadow’ (attested in the second element of the Old English placename Dunmow, Essex), or ‘(dweller by) the wet hollow’, from Middle English mawe ‘stomach’ (Old English maga) used topographically to denote a depression which collects water. See also Mowe .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Compiled and edited by Margaret Petersen Maw Edward Maw, progenitor of the Utah branch of Maws, was born in Root, Yorkshire, England, February 19th, 1809 and died August 9th, 1893 in Ogden, …
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