Brief Life History of James William
When James William Walsh was born on 21 December 1833, in Meaghers Grant, Halifax, Nova Scotia, British Colonial America, his father, William James Walsh, was 43 and his mother, Nancy Faulkner, was 28. He married Eliza Faulkner on 18 March 1861, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 22 October 1917, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- James Welch, "United States Census, 1880"
- James Welsh, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- James Welsh, "Utah, Cemetery Abstracts"
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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.
1850
Historical Boundaries 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Aileen, Dermot, John Patrick, Kieran, Declan, Eamonn, Colm, Donal, Seamus, Siobhan, Brennan.
English and Irish: ethnic name from Middle English walshe (Old English wælisc) ‘foreign, Welsh’. This form of the name was generally more common than Welsh , especially in Ireland, where it originally denoted a Welsh-speaking immigrant, in particular any of the Welshmen who arrived in the wake of Strongbow's Anglo-Norman invasion of 1170. In Ireland it is sometimes also a translation of Breathnach ‘Briton’.
English: in Yorkshire and Lancashire the name is sometimes a shortened form of Walshaw .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Sarah's Pioneer Trek Across the Plains
Sarah was the next to the youngest daughter of 11 children born to William James Welsh and Nancy Faulkner. Sarah began the trek across the plains in 1855 with her mother Nancy Faulkner Welch, her sist …
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