Brief Life History of William Henry
When William Henry Salisbury was born on 7 October 1843, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Salisbury, was 27 and his mother, Ann Morris, was 24. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Nancy Greenwell Harrington. He lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870.
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- Henry Salsbery, "United States Census, 1870"
- Henry Sailsbury, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- William Thomas Salisbury, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1908-1949"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1847
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
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name primarily from Salesbury in Blackburn (Lancashire) but also occasionally from Salisbury (Wiltshire). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English salh ‘willow, sallow’ + burg ‘fortress’, while the Wiltshire placename arises from a shortened form of the Celtic placename Sorviodunum (from an unknown initial element + Celtic dūno- ‘fort’). In the Old English period the second element was dropped and Sorvio- (of unexplained etymology) became Searo- in Old English as the result of folk etymological association the Old English word searu ‘trick’; to this an explanatory burh ‘fortress, manor, town’ was added. The city is recorded in the Domesday Book as Sarisberie; the change of -r- to -l- is the result of later dissimilation.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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