Brief Life History of Maria
When Maria Moss was born on 13 October 1838, in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, George Moss, was 38 and her mother, Mary Anne Hanks, was 36. She married Alfred Francis Clift on 30 April 1858, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 14 December 1873, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Maria Moss in household of George Moss, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Maria Clift, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
- Maria Clift, "Utah, Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, 1847-1976"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States* 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States *Renamed Salt Lake in 1868
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English mos ‘moss, bog’ (Old English mos), for someone who lived at a boggy place, or a habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as Moss (Yorkshire), Mose in Quatford (Shropshire), and Moze (Essex).
English: variant of Moyse .
Irish (Ulster): adoption of the English name 1 by translation for Ó Maolmóna or Ó Maolmhóna ‘descendant of Maolmóna’, a personal name based on maol ‘servant, tonsured one, i.e. devotee’ + a second element assumed to be móin (genitive móna) ‘moorland, peat bog’, in local English ‘moss’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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