Brief Life History of Sarah Wells
When Sarah Wells Hartley was born on 10 August 1836, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Samuel Hartley, was 23 and her mother, Eliza Gill, was 21. She married Richard Perry Soper in 1856, in Davis, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 12 July 1921, in Salem, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Salem City Cemetery, Salem, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Sarah Hartley in household of Samuel Hartley, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Sarah Hartley, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Web: Western States Marriage Index, 1809-2011
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name, in northern England mainly from Hartley in Rochdale parish (Lancashire) but also from any of the places called Hartley in Westmorland and the West Yorkshire. In southern England it derives Hartley in Devon, Hampshire, and Kent, and from Hartleigh in Devon. Similar placenames occur in Berkshire, Dorset, and Northumberland, but it is not known if they gave rise to surnames. Most of the placenames derive from Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, though the Westmorland placename comes from Old English heard ‘hard’ + clā ‘claw, tongue of land’, and the Northumberland placename derives from Old English heorot + hlāw ‘mound, hill’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArtghaile ‘descendant of Artghal’, a personal name composed of the elements Art ‘bear’ or ‘hero’ + gal ‘valor’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Eliza Gill
Was born on a farm, she left her husband and sailed from Liverpool England with her five children to the United States. They crossed the plains with the Martin Handcart Company.
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