Brief Life History of Agnes
When Agnes Brockbank was born on 5 June 1851, in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Isaac Brockbank Sr, was 46 and her mother, Elizabeth Mainwaring, was 43. She married Albert King Thurber on 30 October 1867, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States in 1927 and Hollister, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States in 1930. She died on 30 November 1933, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Richfield City Cemetery, Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States.
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- 1880 US Census for Agnes Brockband Thurber
- Agnes Brockbank, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- 1867 Utah Marriage of Albert King Thurber & Agnes Brockbank
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World Events (8)
1854 · St. George's Hall
In 1854, St. George's Hall was completed. The site that it sits on is were the Liverpool Infirmary was previously located. The hall was built for entertainment.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English brok(e) ‘stream, brook’ + bank(e) ‘ridge, slope, bank’, for someone who lived by the bank of a brook. The name may have been confused with Brocklebank .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Elizabeth Mainwaring (Brockbank)
(This is a report given by Anastasia Horning England at the Horning reunion in November 2014 about Elizabeth Mainwaring Brockbank who is her fourth great-granddaughter). Elizabeth Mainwaring w …
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