Brief Life History of Robenia
When Robenia Dock was born on 12 July 1812, in Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, William Doack Dock, was 38 and her mother, Isabella Taylor, was 37. She married Francis Sproul on 5 June 1835, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1860 and lived in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1841 and Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 2 November 1898, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Robina Sproul in household of Frances Sproul, "Scotland Census, 1841"
- Legacy NFS Source: Robenia Dock - Church record: birth: 12 July 1812; Lisburn, Down, Ireland
- Rabinna Dock, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
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1813 · The Court of Session Act 1813
The United Kingdom Parliament helped Scotland by creating the divisions necessary for better construction of their judiciary system. The Act was later repealed by the Court of Session Act 1988.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Duke .
Norwegian: habitational name from a farm named Dokk, from Old Norse dǫkk ‘hollow, depression’.
North German (Lower Saxony): possibly a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in the cloth trade, from Middle Low German dōk ‘fabric’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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