Brief Life History of William
When William Field was born on 15 January 1835, in Stanley Hill, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Field Sr, was 34 and his mother, Mary Harding, was 29. He married Charlotte Bult on 6 October 1861, in Slaterville, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He immigrated to United States in 1849 and lived in Weber, Utah, United States in 1860 and Marriott-Slaterville, Weber, Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 16 June 1911, in Slaterville, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Ben Lomond Cemetery, North Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- William Field in household of Ebry H Field, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Field - Family genealogies: birth-name: William Field
- Wm. Fields, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English and Irish: habitational name, probably from Field, in Leigh, Staffordshire. The placename derives from Old English feld ‘flat open country’. In the late 12th century one of Henry II's warrior knights took the surname to Ireland, where it often took the semi-Norman French form de la Feld. From the 15th century onward it was increasingly reduced to Field and gave its name to Fieldstown, the family's chief seat near Dublin. A branch of the Anglo-Irish family that migrated back to England in the 14th century retained the Normanized form as Delafield .
English: topographic name for someone who lived by an arable field or an area of open country (Middle English feld).
Irish: Anglicized form of Feeley , through similarity of sound, and of Maghery by translation (chiefly in Armagh), from Gaelic An Mhachaire ‘of the field’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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William Field, Jr.
Life Story William Field Jr. was born 19 January 1835 at Stanley Hill, Hereford, England. He was the fifth child and second son born to William Field Sr. and Mary Harding. His parents were first cou …
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