Brief Life History of Albert
When Albert Carrington was born on 8 January 1813, in Royalton, Windsor, Vermont, United States, his father, Daniel Van Carrington, was 47 and his mother, Isabella Bowman, was 25. He married Rhoda Maria Woods on 6 December 1838, in Iowa, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. He died on 19 September 1889, at the age of 76, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Albert Carrington, "United States Census, 1880"
- Albert Carrington, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
- Albert Carrington, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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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: habitational name from a place in Greater Manchester (formerly in Cheshire) called Carrington, probably named with an unattested Old English personal name Cāra + -ing- denoting association + tūn ‘settlement’.
Scottish: habitational name from a place in Midlothian named Carrington, probably from Old English Cēriheringa-tūn ‘settlement of Cērihere's people’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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