Catherine Mary Cowley

Brief Life History of Catherine Mary

When Catherine Mary Cowley was born on 2 February 1834, in Peel, Isle of Man, her father, Matthias Cowley, was 38 and her mother, Ann Quayle, was 37. She married James Anderson on 4 April 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 3 December 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Anderson
1833–1899
Catherine Mary Cowley
1834–1913
Marriage: 4 April 1856
James Henry Anderson
1857–1934
William Nephi Anderson
1859–1922
Mary Ellen Anderson
1861–1959
Margaret Ann Anderson
1863–1907
Catherine Victoria Anderson
1865–1930
Franklin Matthias Anderson
1868–1891
Joseph Alexander Anderson
1870–1938
Heber Cowley Anderson
1872–1940
George Quayle Anderson
1875–1878
Elizabeth Jane Anderson
1877–1940

Sources (67)

  • Catharine Curley, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Catherine Mary Cowley, "Isle of Man Births and Baptisms, 1607-1910"
  • Catharine M. Anderson, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"

World Events (8)

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.

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

1863

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

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of various places called Cowley. One in Gloucestershire is named with Old English ‘cow’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’; two in Derbyshire have Old English col ‘(char)coal’ as the first element; and one near London is from Old English cofa ‘shelter, bay’ (see Cove ) or the personal name Cofa. The largest group, however, with examples in Buckinghamshire, Devon, Oxfordshire, and Staffordshire, were apparently named as ‘the wood or clearing of Cufa’; however, in view of the number of places called with this element, it is possible that it conceals a topographic term as well as a personal name.

Irish: shortened form of Macaulay (see McCauley ).

Manx: shortened form of Gaelic Mac Amhlaoibh ‘son of Amhlaoibh’ (a Gaelicized form of Old Norse Óláfr). For an alternative Manx form of the same patronymic see Callow .

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

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