Brief Life History of Colene
When Colene Dudley was born in 1806, in Westbrooks Township, Sampson, North Carolina, United States, her father, Labon Dudley Sr., was 15 and her mother, Vicey Wilson, was 12. She married Jenkins Bass about 1823, in Westbrooks Township, Sampson, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Sampson, North Carolina, United States in 1850. She died on 21 June 1870, in Westbrooks Township, Sampson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Westbrooks Township, Sampson, North Carolina, United States.
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- Colen Bass in household of Jenkins Bass, "United States Census, 1850"
- North Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1975
- <Unknown> in entry for Handy Bass, "North Carolina Deaths, 1906-1930"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Name Meaning
English (West Midlands): habitational name from Dudley in Worcestershire, recorded as Duddeleye, Doddeleye in the 13th and 14th centuries, named from the Old English personal name Dudda (see Dodd 1) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish (southern Ireland): in Ireland, when not the English name, it was adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Dubhdáleithe ‘descendant of Dubhdáleithe’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + dá ‘two’ + léithe ‘sides’.
Americanized form of French Daudelin .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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