Louisa Doman

28 April 1853–28 March 1927 (Age 73)
Burton on Trent St Modwen, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

The Life Summary of Louisa

When Louisa Doman was born on 28 April 1853, in Burton on Trent St Modwen, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edward Doman, was 33 and her mother, Rosehannah Taylor, was 27. She married John William Moffit on 21 September 1868, in Toano, Elko, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1868 and lived in Silver City, Juab, Utah, United States for about 20 years and Westcourt, Queensland, Australia in 1927. She died on 28 March 1927, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Silver City Cemetery, Silver City, Juab, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

John William Moffit
1828–1903
Louisa Doman
1853–1927
Marriage: 21 September 1868
Sarah Ellen Moffit
1871–1959
Moffit
1872–
Anna Isabelle Moffit
1873–1943
James John Moffit
1877–1910
Louisa Janet Moffit
1881–1887
Mary Ann Moffit
1884–1960
Margaret Bertha Moffit
1886–1962
Rosanna Taylor Doman Moffit
1888–1941
Minnie Moffit
1891–1891

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    21 September 1868Toano, Elko, Nevada, United States
    • Children

    (9)

    +4 More Children

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (16)

    +11 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1854 · The Crimean War
    Age 1
    The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
    1863
    Age 10
    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
    1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
    Age 22
    In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

    Name Meaning

    Hungarian (mainly Domán): from the personal name Domján (see Domian ), an equivalent of Damian .Slovak (also Domáň), Polish, and Czech: from a derivative of local equivalents of the personal name Thomas , hence a variant of Toman , or from a derivative of a Slavic personal name based on the element dom ‘(at) home’ (from Old Slavic domъ ‘home’), as for example Slovak and Czech Domaslav, Polish Domasław. The homonymous Sorbian cognate (also Domań) is apparently found in Germanized forms, only (see Domann and Thomann ; see also 3 below).Americanized form of German Domann , a surname partly of Sorbian origin (see 2 above).

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

    Possible Related Names

    Domek
    Domian
    Domanski

    Sources (31)

    • Louisa Dowan in household of Edward Dowan, "England and Wales Census, 1861"
    • Louise Moffit in entry for Henry John Wonnacott and Mary A Moffit, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
    • Louise Doman in entry for Annie Isabell Shaw, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"

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