Annie Snell Maw

Brief Life History of Annie Snell

When Annie Snell Maw was born on 18 August 1861, in Hull, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edward Maw, was 52 and her mother, Christiana Snell, was 30. She died on 20 August 1862, in Douglas, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Edward Maw
1809–1893
Christiana Snell
1831–1861
Henry Edward Maw
1854–1858
Edward Snell Maw
1856–1856
Alice Snell Maw
1859–1953
Annie Snell Maw
1861–1862

Sources (7)

  • Smle in household of Edward Maw, "England and Wales Census, 1861"
  • Ann Snell Maw, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Annie S. Maw, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company Financial Accounts (Worldwide), 1849-1886"

Name Meaning

English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): from Middle English Maw(e), a pet form of the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Maheu (see Matthew ). Alternative derivation of Middle English Mawe from an Old English personal name Māwa is theoretically possible in northern England. Compare Mew .

English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): occasionally a variant of Mowe .

English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): topographic name meaning either ‘(dweller by) the meadow’, from an otherwise unrecorded Middle English word mawe, mowe ‘meadow’ (attested in the second element of the Old English placename Dunmow, Essex), or ‘(dweller by) the wet hollow’, from Middle English mawe ‘stomach’ (Old English maga) used topographically to denote a depression which collects water. See also Mowe .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Annie Snell Maw was born 18 August 1861, in Hull, Yorkshire, England. Her mother Christiana Snel died when Annie was two months old. Her mother developed a sore throat and died the next day on …

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