Brief Life History of Hannah
When Hannah Bell was born on 30 May 1814, in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Bell, was 54 and her mother, Alice Rutter, was 46. She married Joshua Breckon on 12 May 1830, in Wallsend, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Rush Lake, Tooele, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 7 November 1886, in Rush Valley, Tooele, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Tooele City Cemetery, Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States.
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- Hannah Bracken, "United States Census, 1850"
- Hannah Bell Bell Bracken, "Find A Grave Index"
- Hannah Breckon in entry for William Breckon, "England, Northumberland, Parish Registers, 1538-1950"
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1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English (northern) and Scottish (Lowlands): from the Middle English personal name Bell. As a man's name this is from Old French beu, bel ‘handsome’, which was also used as a nickname. As a female name it represents a short form of Isabel .
English (northern) and Scottish (Lowlands): from Middle English belle ‘bell’ (Old English belle), in various applications; most probably a metonymic occupational name for a bell ringer or bell maker, or a topographic name for someone living ‘at the bell’ (as attested by 14th-century forms such as John atte Belle). This indicates either residence by an actual bell (e.g. a town's bell in a bell tower, centrally placed to summon meetings, sound the alarm, etc.) or ‘at the sign of the bell’, i.e. a house or inn sign (although surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in Scots and English).
English: from Middle English bel ‘fair, fine, good’ (Old French bel ‘beautiful, fair’). See also Beal 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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