Brief Life History of Alice
When Alice Buckley was born on 24 December 1793, in Saddleworth, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Buckley, was 27 and her mother, Betsy Platt, was 30. She married Abraham Kershaw on 28 July 1816, in Oldham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Oldham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1850. She died on 10 February 1861, in Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States.
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- Alice Kershaw in household of Abm Kershaw, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Alice, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Alice Buckley, "England, Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1603-1910" ( Marriage Event Date: 02 Jun 1816)
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World Events (8)
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places so named, most of which are from Old English bucc ‘buck, male deer’ or bucca ‘he-goat’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Places called Buckley and Buckleigh, in Devon, are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + clif ‘cliff’.
English: in Somerset perhaps alternatively, a variant of the now extinct Bugley, a habitational name from Bugley in Dorset or Wiltshire, named from the Old English female personal name Bucge + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buachalla ‘descendant of Buachaill’, a byname meaning ‘cowherd, servant’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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The Kershaw Family - Part 2
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