Mary Farmer

Brief Life History of Mary

When Mary Farmer was born on 11 October 1829, in Preston Wynne, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Richard Farmer Sr, was 43 and her mother, Elizabeth Morris, was 41. She married Thomas Jefferson Butterfield on 15 March 1857, in President's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Withington, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. She died on 1 January 1890, in Herriman, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Herriman, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Jefferson Butterfield
1811–1890
Mary Farmer
1829–1890
Marriage: 15 March 1857
Richard Butterfield
1858–1858
John Morris Butterfield
1859–1861
Elizabeth Morris Butterfield
1861–1931
Zachariah Butterfield
1864–1963
Emma Eliza Butterfield
1866–1875
Edwin James Butterfield
1867–1921
Lyman Thomas Butterfield
1872–1967

Sources (40)

  • Mary Farmer in household of Ellizabeth Farmer, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
  • Mary Farmer, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • Mary Farmer in marriage of Lyman T. Butterfield & Ella G. Howard, 'Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937' on MyHeritage

World Events (8)

1830

Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1846

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

Name Meaning

English: occupational name from Middle English fermo(u)r, fermer and Anglo-Norman French fermer (Old French fermier, medieval Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.

Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.

Americanized form (translation into English) of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered form Therrien . Compare Pharmer .

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

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Annotated Bibliography: Richard Farmer and Elizabeth Morris Family Stories

This research grew out of a project on my line. I realized there were many connections between my family in Herriman (Crane's) and the Farmer/Trussler family. I made this document to help me understan …

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