When Alice Cherrington was born on 19 November 1849, in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Cherrington, was 28 and her mother, Sarah Belcher, was 26. She married James Thomas Darton on 12 April 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She immigrated to United States in 1855 and lived in Uintah, Weber, Utah, United States in 1935 and Hurricane Election Precinct, Washington, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 30 April 1942, in Hurricane, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Hurricane City Cemetery, Hurricane, Washington, Utah, United States.
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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
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Weber, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Weber, Utah, United States
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English: habitational name from any of various places called Cherington or Cherrington. Cherrington in Shropshire is probably named from the Old English personal name Ceorra + -ing- denoting association (or alternatively from Old English cerring ‘river bend’) + tūn ‘settlement, estate’, but others (Cherington in Gloucestershire and Cherrington in Warwickshire) are from Old English cyrice ‘church’ + tūn. Places called Cheriton in Devon, Hampshire, Kent, and Somerset also have this last etymology.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Daughter of John Cherrington from Kidderminster, England and Sarah Belcher from West Bromwich, Stafford, England. In some records, Alice's mother Sarah appears as Sarah Pennington. Sarah's mother …
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