Brief Life History of Eliza Ann
When Eliza Ann Barrett was born on 16 March 1837, in Pontypool, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, William Barrett, was 36 and her mother, Susanna James, was 26. She married Thomas Foote on 2 May 1857, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860 and Utah, Utah, United States for about 30 years. She died on 14 February 1915, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Eliza Barrett in household of Wm Barrett, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Utah, U.S., Select County Marriages, 1887-1937
- Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
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World Events (8)
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1849
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English and Irish (of Norman origin): probably a nickname for a quarrelsome person, from Old French barat, Middle English bar(r)at, bar(r)et(te) ‘trouble, distress’, later ‘deception, fraud; contention, strife’. Through Norman settlement it also became common in Ireland, where it was Gaelicized as Baróid (Munster) and Baréid (Connacht).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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History of Eliza Ann Barrett, written by her granddaughters Alice Foote Schulthess and May Walter Rutherford, July 1932
Eliza Ann Barrett Foote was born April 6th, 1837 in Pontypoole, Monmouthshire, England, the daughter of William Barrett and Susan (Ann) James Barrett. She was small of stature, being about four feet …
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