Maria Louisa Penn

Brief Life History of Maria Louisa

When Maria Louisa Penn was born on 10 July 1829, in Shadwell, London, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Penn, was 47 and her mother, Hannah Brookwell, was 46. She married Henry James Newman on 30 March 1851, in London, England. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Stepney, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1841. She died on 15 May 1902, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Henry James Newman
1828–1888
Maria Louisa Penn
1829–1902
Marriage: 30 March 1851
Maria Louisa Newman
1852–1920
Henry James Newman
1853–1917
Priscilla Penn Newman
1855–1872
Hannah Newman
1856–1856
Deseret Lincoln Newman
1858–1960
Emily Jane Newman
1859–1950
Brigham Penn Newman
1863–1955
Annie Louvenia Newman
1863–1961
Heber John Newman
1865–1928
Hannah Elizabeth Newman
1868–1952
William Edward Newman
1871–1958
Ida Josephine Newman
1872–1965

Sources (29)

  • Marie Penn in household of John Penn, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
  • Birth - Maria Louisa Penn - Shadwell, Middlex, England - 1829
  • Maris Louisa Penn en el registro de Deseret Newman Middleton, "California Deaths and Burials, 1776-2000"

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World Events (8)

1830

Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).

1831 · Old London Bridge Opens

"The popular childhood rhyme ""London Bridge is Falling Down"" refers to the infamous overpass above the Thames River. By the 19th century the bridge had started to fall apart."

1850

Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Weber, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Weber, Utah, United States

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from either of two places called Penn (in Buckinghamshire and Staffordshire), both of which are named with Brittonic penn ‘head’, often used in hill-names.

English: topographic name or metonymic occupational name from Middle English pen(n) ‘enclosure, animal pen, fold’ (Old English penn), for someone who lived by or worked at a fold. Examples of this surname are formally difficult to distinguish from those in 1 above.

English: from a pet form of the female personal name Pernel, see Parnell .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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MARIA LOUISA PENN NEWMAN And HENRY JAMES NEWMAN

Maria Louisa Penn was born July 10, 1829 to family of seventeen. She was the daughter of John Penn and Hannah Brookwell. She was always a delicate child, the family physician advising her parents to …

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