When Caroline Filer was born on 6 July 1837, in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, her father, Samuel Filer, was 40 and her mother, Maria Stowe, was 33. She married William McLachlan on 6 November 1860, in Coggeshall, Essex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Braintree, Essex, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. She died on 19 January 1920, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1847: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: occupational name for a file maker, or someone who files, smooths, or polishes something, from an -er derivative of Middle English filen ‘to file’.
English: occupational name for a spinner, from Old French fileur ‘spinner’, a derivative of fil ‘thread’ (from Latin filum).
Americanized form of German Feiler , cognate with 1 above.
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Possible Related Namestaken from book by Winifred M. McLachlan) Caroline Filer was born 6 July 1837 in St. Peter's, Sudbury, Suffolk, England, the daughter of Samuel and Maria (Stowe) Filer. Her mother, Maria Filer, wa …
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