When Margaret Fife was born on 14 August 1819, in Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, Scotland, her father, John Fife, was 33 and her mother, Margaret Ann Blair, was 31. She married William Yeates on 21 July 1848, in Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She immigrated to Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1852 and lived in Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1841 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 6 May 1900, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
The Museum of Lancashire is located in the former courthouse of Preston in Lancashire, England. The building was designed by Thomas Rickman. Some the exhibits include Lancashire through the years, at work, at play, goes to war, and law and order. All depict different times and events in Lancashire county. The museum closed in 2015 and is now only opened for scheduled appointments.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Scottish: habitational name from the province and former kingdom of Fife in East Scotland, a name of obscure etymology. Tradition has it that the name is derived from an eponymous Fib, one of the seven sons of Cruithne, legendary founding father of the Picts.
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