When Hannah Ashton was born on 23 February 1840, in Newton, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Richard Ashton Jr., was 25 and her mother, Alice Higginbotham, was 25. She married Edward Franklin Cox on 13 March 1856, in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey, United States in 1850 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 14 February 1894, in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
The Lancashire Rifle Volunteers started in the eighteenth century. Those that fought in the militia were selected by ballot. They were formed because of threat due to the Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called, especially Ashton-under-Lyne near Manchester. Most are named from Old English æsc ‘ash tree’ + tūn ‘settlement’; the one in Northamptonshire is (æt thǣm) æscum ‘(at the) ash trees’. Others have been assimilated to this from different sources. The one in Devon is ‘the settlement (tūn) of Æschere’, while the one in Hertfordshire is ‘the settlement of Ælli’.
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