Catherine Weir Glen

Brief Life History of Catherine Weir

When Catherine Weir Glen was born on 8 May 1843, in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Glen, was 26 and her mother, Margaret Weir, was 18. She married James Cunningham Brown Senior on 28 March 1864, in Newington, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Manti Utah Temple, Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 14 November 1911, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Cunningham Brown Senior
1840–1882
Catherine Weir Glen
1843–1911
Marriage: 28 March 1864
Margaret Brown
1865–1929
James Cunningham Brown Junior
1867–1877
Robert Bruce Brown
1870–1906
William Wallace Brown
1870–1939
John Glen Brown
1872–1872
Kate Brown
1873–1963
Claude Cunningham Brown
1875–1907
James Brown
1878–1884
Horace Glen Brown
1880–1942

Sources (18)

  • Catherine Brown, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Catherine (WEIR) Glen - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth-name: Catherine Glen
  • Newington, Edinburgh Marriage Certificate

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World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1849

Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, Utah Territory, United States 1851: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

Scottish (central Scotland): habitational name from Glen in Traquair (Peebleshire). The placename is derived from Gaelic gleann ‘glen, valley’.

English: habitational name from a place so called in Leicestershire, so named from an Old English word glean ‘glen, valley’ (from Celtic glinn).

Jewish (Ashkenazic): presumably an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish names.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Hon. James C. Brown, Manti Citizen

BROWN, HON. JAMES C, deceased, was a son of James and Jane (Cunningham) Brown, born in Stirlingshire, Bannockburn, Scotland, January 10, 1840. He learned the trade of a weaver, but followed it only a …

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