Robert Willard Woollacott Bywater

21 November 1853–9 July 1915 (Age 61)
Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom

The Life Summary of Robert Willard Woollacott

When Robert Willard Woollacott Bywater was born on 21 November 1853, in Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, Henry Woollacott, was 27 and his mother, Martha Jones, was 26. He married Mary Jane Timpson on 23 October 1876, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States in 1854 and lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 9 July 1915, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Willard Woollacott Bywater
1853–1915
Mary Jane Timpson
1857–1930
Marriage: 23 October 1876
Martha Elizabeth Bywater
1877–1943
Willard George Bywater
1879–1988
Emmett Woollacott Bywater
1882–1956
Maud Mary Bywater
1887–1925
Alma Timpson Bywater
1893–1933
Ruth Bywater
1895–1969

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    23 October 1876Salt Lake, Utah, United States
    • Children

    (6)

    +1 More Child

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (5)

    World Events (8)

    1863
    Age 10
    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
    1867 · Great Reform Act of 1867
    Age 14
    The Great Reform Act of 1867 gave males the right to vote. This also helped to form the Welsh Liberal Party. It was the second of three reforms that would take place.
    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
    Age 17
    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

    Name Meaning

    English: topographic name for someone living by a lake or river, from Middle English by ‘by, beside’ + water ‘water’.Irish: pseudo-translation (due to confusion with sruth ‘stream’) of Gaelic Ó Srutháin ‘descendant of Sruithán’, a personal name from a diminutive of sruith ‘sage, elder’. Bywater is found as the English form of this Gaelic name in County Cork, while in Mayo the usual Anglicization is Ryan .

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

    Possible Related Names

    Ryan
    Bywaters

    Sources (38)

    • Wilocot Bywater in entry for Alma Timson Bywater, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
    • Willard W Bywater, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
    • Willard W in entry for Roy Kenneth Dixon and Ruth Bywater Dixon, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

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