Brief Life History of Louisa
When Louisa Barnes was born on 10 November 1802, in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Willard Barnes, was 35 and her mother, Dolly Stevens, was 31. She married Addison Pratt on 3 April 1831, in Dunham, Missisquoi, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. She died on 8 September 1880, in Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States.
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- Savina A Pratt, "United States Census, 1870"
- Louisa Barnes and Addison Pratt Marriage in the Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968
- Louisa Barnes, "Massachusetts Town Deaths Index, ca. 1640-1961"
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World Events (8)
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1803 · The U.S doubles in size
The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Barnes (on the Surrey bank of the Thames in London), named with Old English bere-ærn ‘barn, a storehouse for barley and other grain’, or a topographic name or metonymic occupational name for someone who lived by or worked at a barn or barns, from Middle English barn ‘barn, granary’.
English: variant of Barne, with excrescent -s, derived from either the Middle English personal name Bern, Barn (based on the Scandinavian personal name Biǫrn or Old English Beorn, both from a word meaning ‘warrior’), or from Middle English barn (Old Norse barn) ‘child’. The latter term is found as a byname for men of the upper classes; it might also have had the meaning ‘young man of a prominent family’, like Middle English child (see Child ).
Irish: in Ireland in many cases this is no doubt the English name, but in others it is possibly an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bearáin ‘descendant of Bearán’, a byname meaning ‘spear’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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