When Mary Margaret Rees was born on 24 March 1820, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, David Rees, was 33 and her mother, Margaret Jenkin, was 30. She married Ebenezer Morris on 8 June 1840, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1853 and lived in Cache, Utah, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 27 March 1888, in Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States.
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A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
The Rebecca Riots were a group of protests in west Wales from 1839-1843. The people involved were mostly poor farmers, primarily men dressed as women. The group was called “Rebecca and her daughters”, a title believed to have come the book of Genesis. They mostly fought against the toll-gates. There is only record of one death during the riots: a young Sarah Williams had been warned that the rioters were coming, but upon refusing to leave, was killed.
Welsh: variant of Rice .
German: habitational name from a place in the Rhineland called Rees.
German: from a short form of the personal name Andreas .
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Possible Related NamesMary Reese was born 24 Mach 1821 in MerthyrTydfil Parish, Glamorganshire, South Wales. She was the daughter of David Mad Margaret Reese. Mary was one of the first people in Wales to embrace the gosp …
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