Brief Life History of Susannah
When Susannah Maw was born on 14 November 1839, in Wroot, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edward Maw, was 30 and her mother, Dinah Maloy Gleadall, was 28. She lived in Drypool, Yorkshire East Riding, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 26 September 1862, in The Plains, Charles, Maryland, United States, at the age of 22.
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- Susanah* Maw in household of Edward Maw, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Sushannah Maw, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Sushannah Maw, "England, Lincolnshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1990"
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World Events (3)
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): from Middle English Maw(e), a pet form of the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Maheu (see Matthew ). Alternative derivation of Middle English Mawe from an Old English personal name Māwa is theoretically possible in northern England. Compare Mew .
English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): occasionally a variant of Mowe .
English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): topographic name meaning either ‘(dweller by) the meadow’, from an otherwise unrecorded Middle English word mawe, mowe ‘meadow’ (attested in the second element of the Old English placename Dunmow, Essex), or ‘(dweller by) the wet hollow’, from Middle English mawe ‘stomach’ (Old English maga) used topographically to denote a depression which collects water. See also Mowe .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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A Short History of some members of the Maw Family
Compiled and edited by Margaret Petersen Maw Edward Maw, progenitor of the Utah branch of Maws, was born in Root, Yorkshire, England, February 19th, 1809 and died August 9th, 1893 in Ogden, …
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