Brief Life History of Ralph
When Ralph Wardle Jr was born on 20 June 1845, in Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Ralph Wardle, was 33 and his mother, Harriet Charlesworth, was 37. He married Anna Margaret Husse on 3 June 1875, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Droylsden, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and California, United States in 1870. He died on 18 November 1911, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in East Lawn Memorial Park, Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States.
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Sources (28)
- Ralph Wardle, "United States Census, 1880"
- Ralph Wardle, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Ralph Wardle, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
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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.
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 Wardle in Lancashire and possibly Wardle in Cheshire, both named with Old English weard-hyll ‘watch hill’. Compare Warden 2 and Wardlaw .
habitational name from Weardale (Durham), which takes its name from the river Wear (related to the Indo-European root wis-, weis- ‘liquid, flow’ or wedōr- ‘water’) + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Voyage & Crossing the Plains of Ralph and Harriet Wardle and Three Children
The following account of the voyage of Ralph Wardle and Harriet, and three of their children, as they crossed the Atlantic Ocean. It is taken from a typewritten volume entitled Church Emigration …
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