Brief Life History of Emily
When Emily Stevens was born on 26 November 1825, in Rode, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, her father, Isaac Stevens, was 40 and her mother, Mary Marshman, was 30. She married Abel Stephen Halliday on 24 December 1848, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1867 and lived in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom for about 3 years. She died on 8 November 1895, in Hooper, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Hooper City Cemetery, Hooper, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Emily Dalton in household of Charles Dalton, "United States Census, 1880"
- Emily Stevens, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Emily, "BillionGraves Index"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1842 · Mines and Collieries Act of 1842
The Parliment of the United Kingdom passed the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842, mostly commonly known as the Mines Act of 1842. This act made it so that nobody under the age of ten could work in the mines and also females in general could not be employed.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English (London), Flemish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Steven . The surname of Flemish origin is also found in the Walloon part of Belgium. In North America, the English form of the surname has also absorbed some like-sounding Jewish names and various other European cognates, e.g. Greek Stefanidis , Serbian Stevanović (see Stevanovic ), Slovenian and Slovak Štefanič (see Stefanic ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Emily Stevens Halliday
EMILY STEVENS HALLIDAYSOURCE Rich, Lydia Pond, in "A story of the life of Emily Stevens Halliday Dalton," 7. Trail Excerpt RELATED PERSONS John Thomas Halliday Abel Stephen Halliday Emily Stevens …
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