Mary Emma Fowler

Brief Life History of Mary Emma

When Mary Emma Fowler was born on 26 December 1851, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Henry Charles Fowler, was 23 and her mother, Martha Holland, was 22. She married Charles Roscoe Savage on 12 October 1876, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in Brightside, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 21 July 1881, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles Roscoe Savage
1832–1909
Mary Emma Fowler
1851–1881
Marriage: 12 October 1876

Sources (19)

  • Emma Fowler in household of Henry Fowler, "United States Census, 1870"
  • England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
  • Mary Emma Fowler Savage, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"

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World Events (8)

1852 · First Public Lavatory Erected 

George Jenning was the person that invented and gave us the public lavatory. It cost people a penny to use. 

1854 · The Crimean War

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.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name for a fowler, a hunter or trapper of wild birds (a common medieval occupation), from Middle English fogheler, fugheler (Old English fugelere, a derivative of fugol ‘bird’).

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

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