When Ephraim Robert Normington was born on 21 August 1851, in Burnley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Normington, was 32 and his mother, Maria Jackson, was 30. He died on 10 August 1856, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 4, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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.
On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from any of the many places called Normanton in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, and Yorkshire. The placenames derive from the Old English personal name Northman or Old English northman (genitive singular northmannes, genitive plural northmana) ‘Norseman, Scandinavian’ + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’.
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Ephraim Robert Normington Born 21 August 1851 in Burnley, Lancashire, England Died 10 August 1856 in Nebraska, East of Florence Outpost Parents are Thomas Normington and Maria Jackson, both born in …
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