Brief Life History of Lot
When Lot Hampson was born on 27 June 1819, in Newton Heath, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Grandwell Hampson, was 36 and his mother, Mary Brown, was 33. He married Esther Lawton on 26 September 1843, in Deansgate, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. He lived in Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1852. He died before 1869, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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- Lott Hampson in household of William Hampson, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Lot Hampson, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Rott Hampson in entry for Frederick C. Hampson, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
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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.
1831
Historical Boundaries: 1831: Cook, Illinois, United States [Spreads across Cook and DuPage counties]
1833 · The Town of Chicago is Founded
Chicago became an incorporated town after the Potawatomi Native Americans and the United States Government signed the Treaty of Chicago. The name comes from the indigenous word shikaakwa meaning onion, or something similar, because of the wild garlic that grew abundantly in the area.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Lancashire): patronymic from the Norman personal name Hamo, Hamon (see Hammond ).
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAmhsaigh ‘descendant of Amhsach’ a byname meaning ‘mercenary soldier’ or ‘messenger’, from the adjective amhasach ‘aggressive’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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