Brief Life History of Robert
When Robert Walsh was born on 6 June 1851, in St James' Church, Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Walsh, was 25 and his mother, Alice Fish, was 22. He died in September 1856, in Wood River Township, Hall, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 5, and was buried in Wood River Township, Hall, Nebraska, United States.
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- Birth of Robert Walsh (1851), England & Wales Births 1837-2006
- Robert Walsh, "Find A Grave Index"
- Robert Walsh, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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World Events (2)
1854 · The Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
1854
On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Aileen, Dermot, John Patrick, Kieran, Declan, Eamonn, Colm, Donal, Seamus, Siobhan, Brennan.
English and Irish: ethnic name from Middle English walshe (Old English wælisc) ‘foreign, Welsh’. This form of the name was generally more common than Welsh , especially in Ireland, where it originally denoted a Welsh-speaking immigrant, in particular any of the Welshmen who arrived in the wake of Strongbow's Anglo-Norman invasion of 1170. In Ireland it is sometimes also a translation of Breathnach ‘Briton’.
English: in Yorkshire and Lancashire the name is sometimes a shortened form of Walshaw .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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