When Mary Sheppart Copley was born on 5 December 1831, in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, her father, John Taylor Copley, was 32 and her mother, Mary Robertson Barclay, was 25. She married William Shepherd Baxter on 3 October 1863, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1863 and lived in Forfar, Angus, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851 and Forgan, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1861. She died on 1 December 1904, in Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States
Being one of the two smallest railways in 1923, the Great North of Scotland Railway carried its first passengers from Kittybrewster to Huntly in 1854. In the 1880s the railways were refurbished to give express services to the suburban parts in Aberdeen. There were junctions with the Highland Railway established to help connect Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Moray counties. The railway started to deliver goods from the North Sean and from the whisky distilleries in Speyside. With the implementation of bus services and the purchase of the British Railway the Great North of Scotland Railway was discontinued.
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from any of various places called Copley, for example in County Durham, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire, from the Old English personal name Coppa (apparently a byname for a tall man) or from copp ‘hilltop’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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