Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary King was born on 5 March 1801, in St Michael South Elmham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, her father, Samuel King, was 34 and her mother, Mary Ling, was 35. She married George Clutton on 25 October 1826, in St Peter South Elmham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. She immigrated to New York County, New York, United States in 1856 and lived in St Cross South Elmham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom in 1841. In 1840, at the age of 41, her occupation is listed as after her husband's head injury she did extra jobs, taking in extra knitting, taught her daughter to knit, sent daughters to babysit, took them with her to the fields to work for extra pennies etc.. She died on 12 January 1875, in Hyde Park, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Hyde Park Cemetery, Hyde Park, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Mary Simpson, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mary King & Elizabeth King, sisters - 1801 & 1803 Birth/Christening - South Elmham St Michael, Suffolk, England
- England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.
English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.
Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable rí (which means ‘king’ in Irish).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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