When Isabella Gill was born on 11 September 1806, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States, her father, Thomas Owen Gill, was 37 and her mother, Nancy Elizabeth Burke, was 35. She married Alexander Williams on 30 September 1824, in Maury, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Utah, Utah, United States for about 1 years. She died on 5 April 1862, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
Some characteristic forenames: Indian Avtar, Amritpal, Darshan, Hardip, Nirmal, Sohan, Ajit, Balwinder, Charan, Jasvir, Kewal, Navdeep.
English and Scottish: in northern England and Scotland sometimes from Middle English Gille, Old Norse Gilli, which is of Irish (Gaelic) origin (see below), and pronounced with a hard g. As a personal name it is not found after c. 1200.
English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English gille ‘deep glen, ravine’ (Old Norse (Norwegian) gil), pronounced with a hard g. The term is found mainly in northwestern England, where Norwegian Vikings settled.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesA BIOGRAPHY OF ALEXANDER WILLIAMS by Croxier Kimball “The longer I live the more I am convinced that that which makes the only difference between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insigni …
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