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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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
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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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