Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Barr was born on 1 December 1801, in Bart Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Christian Barr, was 36 and her mother, Susannah Brenneman, was 29. She married John Neff on 12 January 1822, in Strasburg, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 1 December 1875, in East Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Mary Barr, "United States Census, 1870"
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Glasgow) and northern Irish (Ulster): habitational name from any of various places in southwestern Scotland, in particular Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, named with Gaelic barr ‘height, hill’ or a Brittonic cognate of this.
English and Welsh: habitational name from Great Barr in Staffordshire. This is from Brittonic barro- ‘top, summit’, referring to Barr Beacon; there is evidence that this was known as la Bare in the 13th century.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Barre-en-Ouche in Eure, France, or perhaps from Barre-de-Semilly in Manche, France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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