When Louisa Wardle was born on 18 October 1843, in Salford, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Ralph Wardle, was 31 and her mother, Harriet Charlesworth, was 36. She married Joseph Moss Jr on 2 May 1863, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Lander, Nevada, United States in 1900 and Austin, Lander, Nevada, United States in 1910. She died on 7 October 1920, in Lander, Lander, Nevada, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Austin, Lander, Nevada, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: 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
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
William Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O’Brien were from Ireland but moved to Manchester and were active Fenians. They were part of an ambush to help two Fenians escape prison. These three men were executed and are now referred to as the Manchester Martyrs. The Irish community in Manchester go to the spot where they were executed to commemorate their sacrifice.
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.
Possible Related NamesThe 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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