When Rachel Brimley was born on 5 October 1848, in Ulnes Walton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Richard Brimley, was 26 and her mother, Ann Southworth, was 27. She married Edward Martin on 23 August 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 14 September 1918, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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When the Industrial Revolution hit Lancashire, cotton mills started spring up everywhere. This helped the cotton industry to start booming even moreso in Lancashire.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
habitational name, perhaps from Brimley in Devon or Brimbley in Stoke Abbott, Dorset, both named with Old English brōm ‘broom’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
variant of Bromley .
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