When William Bell Barton was born on 21 July 1836, in Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Barton, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth Bell, was 21. He married Ellen Birchall on 13 March 1860, in St Helens, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Eccleston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 1 October 1923, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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 Lancashire Rifle Volunteers started in the eighteenth century. Those that fought in the militia were selected by ballot. They were formed because of threat due to the Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bere or bær ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, i.e. an outlying grange. Compare Barwick . The name is also found in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bartún.
Polish (Bartoń); Czech and Slovak (mainly Bartoň): from a pet form of the personal name Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj, Slovak Bartolomej, from Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew ). This surname is also found in Germany.
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Possible Related NamesHyrum B. Barton was born at St. Helens, Lancashire, England, June 13, 1852, a son of John and Elizabeth Bell Barton. He was the youngest boy of a family seven boys and two girls, consisting of: twin b …
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