When John Molyneaux Alston was born on 25 December 1855, in Southport, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Alston, was 28 and his mother, Ann Molyneaux, was 26. He married Elizabeth Pope on 4 July 1891, in Coalville, Summit, Utah, United States. He lived in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1937. He died on 6 February 1937, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1859: Summit, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Summit, Utah, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Bacup Natural History Society was established in 1878 in Lancashire. It holds a collection of over 4,000 photos, slides, and documents. It holds many different artifacts from military to fossils.
English and Scottish:
from the Middle English personal name Alstan, which is a coalescence of several different Old English personal names: Æthelstān ‘noble stone’, Ælfstān ‘elf stone’, Ealdstān ‘old stone’, or Ealhstān ‘temple stone’.
habitational name from any of various places called Alston (in Cumbria, Lancashire, Devon, and Somerset) or Alstone (in Gloucestershire and Staffordshire). With the exception of Alston in Cumbria, which is formed with the Old Norse personal name Halfdan, these placenames all consist of an Old English personal name + Old English tūn ‘settlement’, for example Ælfsige in the case of Alstone in Gloucestershire.
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