Brief Life History of Emily
When Emily Bircumshaw was born in April 1863, in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Bircumshaw, was 43 and her mother, Rosetta Plackett, was 39. She died in 1866, at the age of 3.
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- Emily Bircumshaw, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English: see Birkinshaw .
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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