Brief Life History of James Bowyer
When James Bowyer Shelley was born on 7 January 1792, in Claverley, Shropshire, England, his father, James Bowyer, was 23 and his mother, Martha Shelley, was 21. He married Elizabeth Bray on 30 March 1818, in Neenton, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Claverley, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. He died on 19 November 1870, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in American Fork Cemetery, American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Jas B Shelly, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: James Boyer Shelley - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: James Boyer Shelley
- James Shelley and Elizabeth Bray, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"Duplication
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Shelley (Essex, Suffolk, Yorkshire) or from Shelley Plain in Crawley (Sussex). The placenames all derive from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish (Laois): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Sealbhaigh ‘descendant of Sealbhach’, a byname from the adjective sealbhach ‘having possessions, wealthy’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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