Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Henshaw was born on 29 April 1836, in Cotmanhay, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Henshaw, was 33 and her mother, Sarah Walker, was 19. She married Harmon Dudley Pierson on 28 June 1859, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Plymouth, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1910. She died on 20 February 1914, in Penrose, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Willard, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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- Mary Henshaw in household of John Henshaw, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Mary Henshaw, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
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World Events (8)
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1851
Historical Boundaries: 1851: Utah Territory, United States 1852: Weber, Utah Territory, United States 1856: Box Elder, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Box Elder, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire):
habitational name from Henshaw in Prestbury (Cheshire), from Old English henn ‘hen’ + sceaga ‘copse, small wood’.
habitational name from Henshaw (Northumberland), possibly from the Old Norse personal name Hethinn (genitive Hethinns) + Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’. See Hensell , of which Henshaw is sometimes a variant.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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LIFE SKETCH OF MARY HENSHAW PIERSON
Mary, daughter of John and Sarah Walker Henshaw and wife of Harmon Dudley Pierson, was born in Cots, Maney Derbyshire, England, on July 29, 1836. She was the oldest child of her parents and while ver …
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