Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Henderson was born on 12 February 1819, in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, William Henderson, was 32 and her mother, Grace Gibb, was 31. She married David Martin Duncanson in 1835, in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1855. She died on 28 October 1890, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Elizabeth H Duncanson, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
- Elizabeth Duncanson, "Utah, Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, 1847-1976"
- Elizabeth H Duncanson, "Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946"
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1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1820 · """The """"Radical War""""."""
The Scottish Insurrection was a week of strikes and unrest with demands for reform in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The economic downturn after the Napoleonic war ended, brought increasing unrest with the Artisan workers in Scotland, seeking action to reform the government. But the insurrection was largely forgotten about, as attention was focused on the better publicized Radical events in England.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: usually from Middle English and Older Scots Hener(i)son ‘Henry's son’, occasionally from Middle English Hendeson ‘son of Hen’, a pet form of Henry , both with an intrusive -d-. Compare Hendrie . In Scotland Henderson was sometimes substituted for McKendrick .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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