When Elizabeth Roberts was born on 15 October 1820, in Abergele, Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, John Roberts, was 26 and her mother, Mary Hughes, was 22. She married John Parry on 30 October 1843, in Gwaenysgor, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 26 June 1907, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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.
Sparked by a depression that was going through Wales the previous three years, the Merthyr uprisings were carried out by workers that were in debt. In the process, twenty-four people were killed and twenty-six were arrested. Troops were brought in to stop the protestors.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: from the personal name Robert , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also occasionally borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesThe steamship, "Minnesota", with a company of Saints numbering 534 persons, left the port at Liverpool, England on Tuesday, 30 June 1868. Included among the passengers were John Parry, his wife Elizab …
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