Brief Life History of John
When John Briggs Sr was born on 12 November 1855, in Church, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Briggs, was 32 and his mother, Betsy Fielding, was 32. He married Jane Kirkham on 13 August 1885, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Accrington, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States for about 30 years. In 1880, at the age of 25, his occupation is listed as sheep herder in Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States. He died on 2 November 1931, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- John Briggs in household of James Briggs, "England and Wales Census, 1861"
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- John Briggs, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1856
Historical Boundaries: 1856: Iron, Utah Territory, United States 1856: Beaver, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Beaver, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Brigg, with post-medieval excrescent -s, from Middle English brig(g) (Old Norse bryggja), the northern and Scottish word for bridge, for someone who lived by a bridge or who came from any of the places called from the word.
History: The surname Briggs is found chiefly in West Yorkshire. A family of gentry have held lands at Keighley in West Yorkshire continuously for 500 years. The mathematician Henry Briggs (1561–1631), who invented logarithms, was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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BRIGGS FAMILY (John and Jane Kirkham Briggs)
BRIGGS FAMILY John and Jane Kirkham Briggs followed their oldest son, John Jr. to Manila in 1910. John traveled from Beaver, Utah with two teams and wagons and four children while Jane came on the tr …
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