Brief Life History of Annie
When Annie Moss was born on 25 October 1829, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Jackson Moss, was 23 and her mother, Ann McCluskey, was 16. She married Jonathan Kay on 25 December 1845, in Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 2 April 1892, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Ann Moss in household of Willm Moss, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- West Yorkshire, England, Church Of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1910
- Ann Moss, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
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1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
1842 · Mines and Collieries Act of 1842
The Parliment of the United Kingdom passed the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842, mostly commonly known as the Mines Act of 1842. This act made it so that nobody under the age of ten could work in the mines and also females in general could not be employed.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English mos ‘moss, bog’ (Old English mos), for someone who lived at a boggy place, or a habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as Moss (Yorkshire), Mose in Quatford (Shropshire), and Moze (Essex).
English: variant of Moyse .
Irish (Ulster): adoption of the English name 1 by translation for Ó Maolmóna or Ó Maolmhóna ‘descendant of Maolmóna’, a personal name based on maol ‘servant, tonsured one, i.e. devotee’ + a second element assumed to be móin (genitive móna) ‘moorland, peat bog’, in local English ‘moss’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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History of Samuel Moss Kay (from Lorraine Kay Larsen)
(This history is found in "As Time Goes By" by Nellie Rae Hunt Jones - Nellie Rae is a great granddaughter of Samuel Moss Kay.) Samuel Moss Kay was born October 9, 1847 at Manchester, Lancaster, Eng …
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