Louisa Mellor

Brief Life History of Louisa

When Louisa Mellor was born on 23 May 1840, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, her father, James Mellor, was 21 and her mother, Mary Ann Payne, was 21. She married Edward Watkins Clark on 3 February 1857, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She immigrated to Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1856 and lived in Leicester All Saints, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Utah, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 25 December 1915, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Santaquin City Cemetery, Santaquin, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Edward Watkins Clark
1820–1909
Louisa Mellor
1840–1915
Marriage: 3 February 1857
Franklin Clark
1859–1945
Moroni Clark
1860–1939
Emma Clark
1864–1933
Edward Charles Clark
1867–1867
Joseph James Clark
1870–1918
Eliza Jane Clark
1871–1956
John Edward Clark
1873–1953
Brigham Clark
1876–1943
David Thomas Clark
1877–1906

Sources (50)

  • CENSUS: ENGLAND, Leicestershire, All Saints, Louise Mellon in household of James Mellon, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
  • Louisa Mellor, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," Apr-May-Jun 1840
  • Louisa M Clark, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"

World Events (8)

1843

Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.

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

1860 · Abraham Lincoln Elected President

Abraham Lincoln was Elected President of the United States in November of 1860

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of the places in Lancashire, West Yorkshire, and Derbyshire, earlier recorded as Melver, and named from ancient British words that are ancestors of Welsh moel ‘bare’ + bre ‘hill’.

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

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Mary Ann Mellor and Louisa Mellor Clark

The Mellor family’s emigration to join the saints was difficult from the start. On the day their ship was set to depart from Liverpool, Mary Ann went into premature labor and gave birth to conjoined t …

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