Brief Life History of William
When William Burnside was born on 13 December 1850, in Bathgate, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, his father, John Mason Burnside, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Prentice, was 23. He married Annie Campbell on 15 June 1875, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1861. He died on 23 February 1908, in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Mount Pleasant City Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- William Burnside, "Scotland Census, 1861"
- Wm. Burnside, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964" (1908)
- William Burnside, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1855
EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER A. Marie Dinnesen Neilson BIRTH 13 Feb 1829 Denmark DEATH 2 Jan 1855 (aged 25) BURIAL Mount Pleasant City Cemetery Mount Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 42004366 · View Source
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
Scottish (central Scotland) and Irish (Ulster): habitational name from one of the many places so named (from burn- ‘stream’), especially those in Lanarkshire and West Lothian.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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BOOK: History of John Mason Burnside by Henry Burnside son of Thomas LeRoy Burnside; Son of John Mason Burnside and Elizabeth Prentice "Thomas …
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