Brief Life History of Joanna Murray
When Joanna Murray Bee was born on 14 October 1828, in Musselburgh, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, George Bee, was 28 and her mother, Janet Aitcheson, was 30. She married George Thomson in 1853, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Newton, Cache, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 14 January 1913, in Grover, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Grover Cemetery, Grover, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States.
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- Johanna Bee, "Scotland Census, 1841"
- Joanna Murray Bee in the Family Data Collection - Births
- Joanna M. Bee, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1832 · The Scottish Reform Act
The Scottish Reform Act was introduced by Parliament that introduced changes to the election laws in Scotland. The Act didn’t change the method of how the counties elected members but adopted a different solution for each pair of counties. Ultimately, it brought about boundary changes so that some burghs would have more say for the country than others.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English be(e) ‘bee’ (Old English bēo), hence a nickname for an energetic or active person or a metonymic occupational name for a beekeeper. Compare Beeman 2.
Americanized form of Norwegian Bye .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE THOMSON
BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE THOMSON George Thomson, son of Moses Thomson and Janet Steele was born at Thornhill, Perthshire, Scotland, March 1, 1830. He was the third child out of a family of eight chi …
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