When Elizabeth Snowball was born on 27 June 1846, in Bedlington, Northumberland, England, her father, Thomas Snowball, was 37 and her mother, Elizabeth Garr, was 32. She married John Davidson Burt III on 7 March 1863, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in St Paul's Church, Healey, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. In 1880, at the age of 34, her occupation is listed as keeping house. She died on 25 March 1941, in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Brigham City Cemetery, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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English (Durham and Northumberland): nickname for someone with a snow‐white patch of hair or a whitish bald spot amid dark hair, from Middle English snou, snow ‘snow’ + ball ‘white streak, bald place’. Snowbald, an early variant, may be evidence of the latter meaning, from Middle English balled ‘bald’, though the -d may be excrescent. Compare Bald , Ball 3.
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Possible Related NamesHISTORY – JOHN SNOWBALL, PIONEER OF 1854 February 21, 1840, in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, John Snowball was born. He was the eldest child of Thomas and Elizabeth Garr Snowball. He had a brother, Ral …
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