Brief Life History of Phebe
When Phebe Campbell was born on 9 October 1809, in Saint John, St. John, New Brunswick, British Colonial America, her father, Isaac Campbell, was 24 and her mother, Ann Wry, was 15. She married William Atkinson on 26 December 1833, in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 9 daughters. She lived in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada in 1851. She died on 21 October 1904, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Bountiful Memorial Park, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Phoebe Atkinson, "United States Census, 1880"
- Phebe C Atkinson, "Utah, County Birth and Death Records,1892-1951"
- Marriages Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada
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World Events (8)
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1820 · First Bank
March 25, 1820, the first bank located in Saint John, New Brunswick, was established.
1838 · Aroostook War
The Aroostook War took place from 1838-1839. It was a conflict between the state of Maine and New Brunswick over the northern boarder. The battle was bloodless.
Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Atkinson, William 1812
William Atkinson 1812 by Ilene Panter. William Atkinson, a Utah pioneer of 1853 and an early and prominent resident of Bountiful and Woods Cross, Utah is the grandson of Robert Atkinson, a native of …
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