Edward Mapstone

Brief Life History of Edward

When Edward Mapstone was born from January 1870 to December 1870, in England, United Kingdom, his father, George Mapstone, was 38 and his mother, Ellen Churches, was 34. He married Alice Rose Masters in 1902, in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Wedmore, Somerset, England, United Kingdom in 1881. He died on 24 July 1958, in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States.

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Family Time Line

Edward Mapstone
from January 1870 to December 1870–1958
Georgiana Dozois
1878–1957
Marriage: 1920
Doris H. Mapstone
1907–1996
Shirley Mapstone
1918–1997

Sources (9)

  • Edward Mapstose, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Edward Mapstone, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • Edward Mapstone in entry for Robert Morris Loeb, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"

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World Events (8)

from January 1870 to December 1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children

School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

English (Somerset and Gloucester): habitational name from Mapstone in Lustleigh (Devon). The placename may derive from the Old English personal name Mætta + Old English panne-stān ‘pan-shaped stone’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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