Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Giles was born on 3 March 1848, in Nantyglo, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Davis Giles, was 27 and his mother, Margaret Thomas, was 27. He lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1860 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870. He died after 1877.
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- Joseph Giles in household of Thomas Giles, "United States Census, 1870"
- Joseph Giles, "Find A Grave Index"
- Joseph Giles, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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1850 · Coal Fields in South Wales Developed
Like the iron and copper mines, the coal fields in South Wales were very important to the industrial revolution. Many of those that worked in the coal mines were part of the Merthyr uprising.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States* 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States *Renamed Salt Lake in 1868
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from a medieval personal name, Middle English Giles or Gile, a borrowing from Old French Gil(l)e(s). This is from Latin Aegidius and this presumably from Greek aigidion ‘kid, young goat’ (alternatively, it could be a Late Latin formation from the Latin personal name Eggius + the suffix -idius). The personal name was widely used in France and the Low Countries, partly through veneration of Saint Gilles de Provence, supposedly a hermit of the 7th century near Arles; he was patron saint of cripples, hence the dedication of Saint Giles Cripplegate in London, though the personal name itself was less common in England than elsewhere in Europe. See also Gilles .
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Glaisne, a County Louth name based on glas ‘green, blue, gray’.
French: variant of Gilles , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Thomas Davis Giles -"The Blind Harpist"
Thomas Davis Giles was converted to "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" in 1844 in southern Wales through the efforts of his friend, Elder Abel Evans, a local Welsh missionary and recent …
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