Brief Life History of Jemima
When Jemima Keeble was born on 28 September 1807, in Stowupland, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, her father, Samuel Keeble, was 48 and her mother, Margery Havers, was 41. She married John Dent on 14 February 1840, in Stowupland, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Essex, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 10 July 1877, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Emma David in household of John David, "England and Wales Census, 1861"
- Legacy NFS Source: Jemima Keeble - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Jemima Keeble
- Jemima Keeble, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
Name Meaning
English (southeastern): nickname from Middle English kibble ‘cudgel’, perhaps for someone who used or made cudgels or whose physique resembled one.
Americanized form of South German Kübel, a metonymic occupational name for a cooper, from Middle High German kübel ‘tub, vat’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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