Brief Life History of Isabella
When Isabella Mark was born on 20 December 1816, in Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland, her father, Allan Daniel Mark, was 23 and her mother, Isabell Brown, was 18. She married Michael Hendry on 25 October 1835, in Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1855 and lived in Cache, Utah, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 30 December 1891, in Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Isabelle Hendric, "United States Census, 1860"
- Isobel Mark, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
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1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1827 · Slavery Becomes Illegal in New York State
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and Sorbian: from Latin Marcus, the personal name of Saint Mark the Evangelist, author of the second Gospel in the New Testament. This name was also borne by a number of early Christian saints. Marcus is an ancient Roman name, of uncertain (possibly non-Italic) etymology; it may have some connection with the name of the war god Mars; compare Martin . The personal name was not as popular in England in the Middle Ages as it was elsewhere in Europe, especially in Italy, where the evangelist became the patron of Venice and the Venetian Republic. He was allegedly buried at Aquileia. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates and similar-sounding names from other languages, e.g. Polish, Czech, and Slovak Marek , Ukrainian, Slovenian, Sorbian, Rusyn, and Croatian Marko , Greek Markos , and also their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Jewish and Slavic Markowicz and Markovich ; see also 6 below.
English and German; Dutch (Van der Mark): topographic name for someone who lived on a boundary between two districts, from Middle English merke, Middle High German marc, Middle Dutch marke, merke, all meaning ‘borderland’. The German term also denotes an area of fenced-off land (see Marker 5) and, like the English word, is embodied in various placenames which have given rise to habitational names. This surname (in any of the possible senses; see also 5 below) is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine; compare Marck ).
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Marck, Pas-de-Calais, France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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