Brief Life History of Eliza
Mrs. Eliza Dilworth was born on 26 November 1813, in Ireland. She married John Dilworth. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Baltimore, Maryland, United States for about 10 years. She died on 15 September 1888, in Fork, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Saint Johns Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
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Sources (6)
- Eliza Dilworth in household of John Dilworth, "United States Census, 1870"
- Eliza Dilworth, "BillionGraves Index"
- Eliza Dilworth in entry for George Dilworth, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
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World Events (8)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Dilworth in Lancashire, named from Old English dile ‘dill’ (a medicinal and culinary herb) + worth ‘enclosure’.
Irish (Tyrone): English surname adopted by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Dubhluachra ‘descendant of Dubhluachra’, a compound of dubh ‘black’ + luachair ‘rushes’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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