Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Moss was born on 25 October 1841, in Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Jackson Moss, was 35 and his mother, Ann McCluskey, was 28. He married Fanny Elizabeth Goodman on 17 February 1860, in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Eccles, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 29 October 1909, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Thomas Moss, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Thomas Moss, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Thomas Moss, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English mos ‘moss, bog’ (Old English mos), for someone who lived at a boggy place, or a habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as Moss (Yorkshire), Mose in Quatford (Shropshire), and Moze (Essex).
English: variant of Moyse .
Irish (Ulster): adoption of the English name 1 by translation for Ó Maolmóna or Ó Maolmhóna ‘descendant of Maolmóna’, a personal name based on maol ‘servant, tonsured one, i.e. devotee’ + a second element assumed to be móin (genitive móna) ‘moorland, peat bog’, in local English ‘moss’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Biography of Ann Mitchell McCluskey Moss By Marlene Roth
Birthdate: 1 Jan 1813 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England Death: 10 Jan 1887 Salt Lake City, Utah Parents: Michael McCluskey & Ann Mitchell McCluskey Pioneer: 26 Oct. 1864 William Hyde Wagon Company …
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