Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Duncan was born in 1848, in Dickson, Tennessee, United States, her father, James Neal Duncan, was 20 and her mother, Lucinda Jane Petty, was 22. She married Jesse Judson Rascoe on 2 September 1866, in Navarro, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Lincoln, New Mexico, United States in 1885 and Eddy, New Mexico, United States in 1900. She died on 23 May 1922, in Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States.
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- M J Duncan in household of J C Templeton, "United States Census, 1860"
- Mary J Duncan, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Mary J Roscoe, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
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1848 · The California Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
Name Meaning
Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Dunecan, itself from the traditional Irish royal name Donnchad(h), derived from donn ‘brown-haired’ + cath ‘battle’. Judging by the Scots form, the Scottish Gaelic intermediary seems to have been understood as containing ceann ‘head’, as if the whole name meant ‘brown head’; compare sense 2. In Ireland the name was Anglicized as Donagh or Donaghue. Compare Donahue .
Irish: used as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn ‘descendant of Donncheann’, a byname composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + ceann ‘head’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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