Brief Life History of Peter
When Peter Barton was born on 21 March 1845, in St Helens, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Barton, was 39 and his mother, Elizabeth Bell, was 30. He married Ellen Ann Beazer on 24 December 1870, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Layton Election Precinct, Davis, Utah, United States in 1900 and Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 28 November 1912, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Peter Barton, "United States Census, 1900"
- Peter Barton, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Judicial Prosecution of Prisoners For LDS Plural Marriage
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bere or bær ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, i.e. an outlying grange. Compare Barwick . The name is also found in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bartún.
Polish (Bartoń); Czech and Slovak (mainly Bartoň): from a pet form of the personal name Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj, Slovak Bartolomej, from Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew ). This surname is also found in Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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