Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Orton was born on 4 October 1833, in Amington, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Marler Orton, was 32 and his mother, Mary Welton, was 11830. He married Emma Webb on 20 October 1866, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. He died on 31 December 1916, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States.
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- Joseph Orton in household of John Patteson, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Joseph Orton, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Joseph Orton, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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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.
1852
Historical Boundaries: 1852: Washington, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Washington, Utah, United States
1861
Historical Boundaries: 1861: Washington, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Washington, Utah, United States
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Orton in Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, and Westmorland. All those in England share a second element from Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, but the first element in each case is more difficult to determine. Examples in Cambridgeshire and Warwickshire are on the banks of rivers, so these are probably derived from Old English ōfer ‘riverbank’; in other cases it is impossible to distinguish between ofer ‘ridge’ and ufera ‘upper’. Orton in Westmorland is probably formed with the Old Norse byname Orri ‘black-cock’ (the male black grouse). Orton near Fochabers, Scotland, is of uncertain etymology.
Americanized form of Norwegian Årtun: habitational name from the farm name Årtun, found in six places, e.g. in the province of Rogaland, a compound of the genitive case singular of Old Norse á ‘small river’ and tún ‘farm yard (surrounded by buildings)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Notes by Kathy Barrick 2011: There was a book in the St. George, Utah Family History Center in their special collections called Annals of Southern Utah Mission by James G. Bleak. I wasn’t al …
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