Brief Life History of Martha
When Martha James was born on 6 June 1847, in Pinvin, Worcestershire, England, her father, William James, was 39 and her mother, Jane Haynes, was 32. She married Benjamin Boyce Richmond Jr on 4 May 1870, in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1856 and lived in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States in 1880 and Pleasant View, Weber, Utah, United States in 1910. She died on 22 October 1919, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Martha James in household of William James, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Martha James, "England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837-1920"
- Utah, Select Marriages, 1887-1966
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1849
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name James. Introduced to England by the Normans, this is an Old French form of Late Latin Iacomus, a variant of Latin Iacobus, Greek Iakōbos, the New Testament rendering of Hebrew Ya‘aqob (see Jacob ). The medieval Latin (Vulgate) Bible distinguished between Old Testament Iacob (which was uninflected) and New Testament Iacobus (with inflections). The latter developed into James in medieval French. The distinction was carried over into the King James Bible of 1611, and Jacob and James remain as separate names in English usage. Most European languages, however, make no such distinction, so that forms such as French Jacques , stand for both the Old and the New Testament names. This surname is also very common among African Americans. Compare Jack .
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