Mary Elizabeth Barraclough

Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth

When Mary Elizabeth Barraclough was born on 17 March 1923, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Rowland Barraclough, was 32 and her mother, Johanne Margrethe Thomsen, was 32. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 1 August 2005, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Rowland Barraclough
1890–1953
Johanne Margrethe Thomsen
1890–1973
Mary Elizabeth Barraclough
1923–2005
Ralph Thomsen Barraclough
1927–2017

Sources (13)

  • Mary E Barraclough, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Mary E Barraclough, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Mary Elizabeth Barraclough, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Missionary Registers (Worldwide), 1860-1937"

World Events (8)

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1928 · The Tower Theater

The Tower Theatre is a historic film theater operated by the Salt Lake Film Society. The theater presents independent films and is a venue for the Sundance Film Festival. It also presents classic films on occasional weekends and hosts a movie-rental library for those that want to expand their cinematic knowledge.

1945 · Peace in a Post War World

The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.

Name Meaning

English (mainly Yorkshire): habitational name from a lost place in Southowram near Halifax, Yorkshire, named with Old English bearu ‘grove’ + clōh ‘ravine’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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