Brief Life History of Ralph
When Ralph Wardle was born on 16 March 1812, in Romiley, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Wardle, was 41 and his mother, Elizabeth "Betty" Ratcliffe, was 39. He married Harriet Charlesworth on 2 January 1832, in Stockport St Mary, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Droylsden, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Sacramento, California, United States in 1870. He died on 17 July 1886, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in New Helvetia Cemetery, Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States.
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- Ralph Wardle, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Ralph Wardle, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Ralph Wardle, "California Deaths and Burials, 1776-2000"
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World Events (8)
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1819 · Peterloo Massacre
On August 16, 1819, in St. Peter’s Field, Manchester, England, a group of around 80,000 gathered together in an attempt to get parliament representation reformed. Shortly after a cavalry charged the crowd. By the end, 15 people died and around 600 were injured.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from Wardle in Lancashire and possibly Wardle in Cheshire, both named with Old English weard-hyll ‘watch hill’. Compare Warden 2 and Wardlaw .
habitational name from Weardale (Durham), which takes its name from the river Wear (related to the Indo-European root wis-, weis- ‘liquid, flow’ or wedōr- ‘water’) + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Voyage & Crossing the Plains of Ralph and Harriet Wardle and Three Children
The following account of the voyage of Ralph Wardle and Harriet, and three of their children, as they crossed the Atlantic Ocean. It is taken from a typewritten volume entitled Church Emigration …
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