When Louisa Stewart was born on 16 June 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, Levi Stewart, was 33 and her mother, Melinda Howard, was 28. She married Nephi Porter Stevenson on 16 December 1865, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850 and Porterville, Morgan, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 7 March 1891, in Fielding, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Davis, Utah, United States.
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On May 1-3, 1846, the Nauvoo Illinois Temple was fully dedicated. It was the second temple that had been built by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first temple with an angel Moroni on top, in the case of this temple it also doubled as a weather vane. Before the saints left Nauvoo they gathered in great numbers to go through.
Historical Boundaries: 1859: Davis, Utah Territory, United States 1862: Morgan, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Morgan, Utah, United States
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: originally an occupational name for an administrative official of an estate, from Middle English stiward, Old English stigweard, stīweard, a compound of stig ‘house(hold)’ + weard ‘guardian’. In the Anglo-Saxon period this title was used of an officer controlling the domestic affairs of a household, especially of the royal household; after the Norman Conquest it was also used more widely as the native equivalent of Seneschal, for the steward of a manor or manager of an estate. In Scotland the term was also used of a magistrate originally appointed by the king to administer crown lands, forming a stewartry.
History: Stuart or Stewart is the surname of one of the great families of Scotland, the royal family of Scotland from the 14th century, and of England from 1603, when James VI of Scotland acceded to the English throne as James I. There were many minor branches of the family left in Britain after the flight of James II in 1688, but not every bearer of the surname can claim relationship with the royal house, even in Scotland. Every great house in medieval England and Scotland had its steward, and in many cases the office gave rise to a hereditary surname. The fall of the house of Stuart in Britain, conversely, led to the establishment of several highly placed branches bearing this surname in continental Europe, which are in most cases related to the old Scottish royal family.
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Possible Related NamesLouisa Stewart was born 16 June 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois to Levi and Melinda Howard Stewart. Her family was in Nauvoo during the 1840's,and her parents were sealed in the Nauvoo …
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