When James Ollerton was born on 8 June 1856, in Preston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Seth Ollerton, was 29 and his mother, Jane or Jennett Rogerson, was 29. He married Mary Emma Adams on 21 January 1880, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 8 April 1917, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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The Lancashire Rifle Volunteers started in the eighteenth century. Those that fought in the militia were selected by ballot. They were formed because of threat due to the Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War.
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George W. Sirrine, Charles I. Robson, Charles Crismon, and Francis M. Pomeroy broke ahead of the Mesa Company to determine the permanent location for the new settlers. They arrived to Ft. Utah in Arizona on December 1877. The remainder of the nine families of the Mesa Company arrived on February 14, 1878. The company moved five miles upstream to utilize an ancient canal. The townsite was known as Mesa City.
English: habitational name from Ollerton in Lancashire. The placename derives from Old English alor ‘alder’ + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’. There are similarly named places in Cheshire, Nottinghamshire, and Yorkshire. Compare Allerton .
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Possible Related NamesJune 27, 1923, Sketch of the Life of James Ollerton by his daughter, Mary Jane Ollerton: Today would have been Father's sixty-seventh birthday. It is just seventeen years this morning since I went do …
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