When Mary Butterworth was born in 1854, in Seward, Seward, Nebraska, United States, her father, Edmund Butterworth, was 28 and her mother, Betty Fielding, was 25. She died in 1854, in her hometown, at the age of 0.
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On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
English: from Butterworth in Lancashire (near Rochdale). Named with Old English butere ‘butter’ + worth ‘enclosure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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