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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- 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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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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