Brief Life History of James
When James Adams was born on 13 January 1847, in Eckington, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Adams, was 30 and his mother, Mary Muscroft, was 26. He married Martha Ann Field on 25 March 1867, in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Darton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871 and Old Whittington, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881. He died on 7 July 1918, in Orem, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- James Adams, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
- James Adams, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- James Adams, "Utah Marriages, 1887-1935"
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1853
The Provo City Cemetery was dedicated in 1853.
1854 · The Crimean War
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.
1877
Historical Boundaries: 1877: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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