Brief Life History of Violate
When Violate Stockwell was born on 10 October 1794, in Windham, Windham, Vermont, United States, her father, Abraham Stockwell Jr, was 25 and her mother, Violate Gale, was 24. She married William Burgess on 8 October 1812, in Washington, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 21 July 1880, in Pine Valley, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Pine Valley Cemetery, Pine Valley, Washington, Utah, United States.
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- Violate Burgess in household of William Burgess, "United States Census, 1860"
- record of birth place
- U.S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900
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World Events (8)
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from any of various places called Stockwell, including Stockwell in Lambeth (Surrey) and Stockwell in Cowley (Gloucestershire), from Old English stocc ‘tree trunk, stump’ + wella ‘well, spring, stream’.
perhaps sometimes in northern England a variant of Stockill, a habitational name from Stockeld in Spofforth (Worth Yorkshire) and perhaps also Stockheld Grange in Barwick in Elmet (Yorkshire). The placenames derive from Old English stocc ‘tree trunk, stump’ + helde ‘slope’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Story Highlight
William Burgess and Violate Stockwell
MARRIAGE of WILLIAM BURGESS and VIOLATE STOCKWELL Some years ago the marriage of William and Violate was found in Chesterfield, Cheshire County, New Hampshire record, but the reference has been lost. …
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