Brief Life History of Matilda Jane
When Matilda Jane Hartley was born on 14 September 1838, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Samuel Hartley, was 26 and her mother, Eliza Gill, was 23. She married Russell Gideon Brownell on 4 March 1857, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Oak Creek, Millard, Utah, United States in 1880 and Oak City, Millard, Utah, United States in 1910. She died on 27 October 1916, in Leamington, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Oak City Cemetery, Oak City, Millard, Utah, United States.
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- Matilda J. Overson in household of Christian Overson, "United States Census, 1880"
- Matilda Jane Hartley, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- Matilda Ovesson, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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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.
1851
EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER Ann Parsons Lovell BIRTH 4 Jan 1809 Keynsham, Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority, Somerset, England DEATH 5 Dec 1851 (aged 42) Iowa, USA BURIAL Oak City Cemetery Oak City, Millard County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 27427523 · View Source
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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