When Ann Houghton was born on 14 September 1832, in London, England, United Kingdom, her father, Frederick Houghton, was 36 and her mother, Amelia Brown, was 32. She married Thomas Gunn on 26 February 1855, in Whitechapel, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in London St Bartholomew the Great, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Adamsville, Beaver, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 26 July 1914, in Beaver, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States.
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The royal menagerie was something more of a zoo with different types of animals and was removed from the tower in 1835.
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.
The pillar box is a form of mailbox. Until 1855, people would have to walk the distance to go to the post office in order to send mail.
English:
habitational name from any of numerous places called Houghton or Hoghton. Most of the placenames derive from Old English hōh ‘heel, spur of land’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some have different etymologies; for example, Little Houghton in Eccles (Lancashire), which derives from Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’ + tūn, and Houghton in Bigbury (Devon), which may derive from an Old English personal name Huhha + Old English tūn.
variant of Haughton .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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