Brief Life History of Caroline Miranda
When Caroline Miranda Leffingwell was born on 2 September 1838, in Conewango, Cattaraugus, New York, United States, her father, William Leffingwell, was 32 and her mother, Eunice Bigelow, was 33. She married William Moore Gillespie on 22 February 1860, in Sonoma, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in San Miguel Judicial Township, San Luis Obispo, California, United States in 1900 and Oakland, Alameda, California, United States in 1910. She died on 12 August 1911, in San Mateo, California, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Cambria Cemetery, Cambria, San Luis Obispo, California, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (14)
- Caroline M Gillespie in household of Wm M Gillespie, "United States Census, 1870"
- Caroline Leffennell, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Caroline (C. M.) Miranda Leffingwell Gillespie, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1856
Historical Boundaries: 1856: San Mateo, California, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Leppingwells in Essex, which is recorded as Leffingwelles in 1561 and owed its name to the possessions there of the family of Robert de Leffeldewelle (1302), who is called Leffingwell in an Elizabethan transcript of the Court Rolls.
History: The family, called Leffingwell in the 15th century and Leppingwell in the 16th, took its name from a lost place recorded as Liffildeuuella in 1086 (from the Old English personal name Lēofhild + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’), which may survive in a corrupt form in Levit's Corner in Pebmarsh (Essex), into which their possessions extended.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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