When Lucetta Stratford was born on 15 September 1834, in Maldon, Essex, England, United Kingdom, her father, George Stratford, was 26 and her mother, Eliza Barwell, was 24. She married Charles William Penrose on 21 January 1855, in Maldon, Essex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 12 daughters. She died on 19 January 1903, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
English:
habitational name from any of various places called Stratford, for example in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, and Wiltshire, from Old English strǣt ‘Roman road’ (see Street ) + ford ‘ford’.
habitational name principally from Strafford Sands (now lost) in Mexborough (Yorkshire), presumed to be the ancient meeting-place of Strafforth Wapentake, and deriving from the same source as 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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