Brief Life History of George
When George Calder was born on 21 December 1838, in Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, George Calder, was 44 and his mother, Anne Johnston, was 37. He married Mary Bennion on 6 April 1861, in Taylorsville, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1841 and Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 30 years. He died on 29 March 1910, in Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Vernal Memorial Park, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.
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- George Calder, "United States Census, 1870"
- Marriage of George Calder and Mary Bennion
- George Calder, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1848
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1857 · Police (Scotland) Act 1857
The Police Act 1857 was an Act put into place by Parliament to establish a mandatory police force in every county of Scotland.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from any of the places called Calder in Midlothian and Caithness, or Cawdor in Nairnshire.
English: perhaps a habitational name from Calder in Cumbria, named from the river on which it stands (probably a British name, from Welsh caled ‘hard, violent’ + dwfr ‘water, stream’). However, the modern surname in England seems to be of Scottish origin, rather than from the Cumbrian placename.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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