Brief Life History of Margaret A
When Margaret A Boland was born on 11 October 1904, in Troy, Rensselaer, New York, United States, her father, James Joseph Boland, was 29 and her mother, Mary Ann Dwane, was 30. She died in March 1979, in Troy, Rensselaer, New York, United States, at the age of 74.
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Sources (9)
- Margaret A Boland, "United States Census, 1930"
- Margaret Boland, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Margaret Boland in household of James J Boland, "New York State Census, 1905"
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World Events (8)
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
1917 · Women Given the Right to Vote in New York
Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Aidan, Bridie, Caitlin, Donal, Finbar, Maeve.
English: habitational name from the district of Bowland (Forest) in North Yorkshire and Lancashire. Robert of Bowland was a member of the garrison of Stirling castle in Scotland in 1339–40, and was presumably a Yorkshireman or a Lancastrian.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beólláin ‘descendant of Beóllán’, an old Irish name of uncertain origin. See Bolan 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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