Brief Life History of Catherine
When Catherine Chaplin was born on 26 June 1807, in Tuddenham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Chaplin, was 22 and her mother, Catharine Man, was 23. She married Charles Henry Lord on 7 April 1846, in Tuddenham St Martin, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Tuddenham St Martin, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 16 May 1862, at the age of 54, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Catherine Lord, "United States Census, 1860"
- Burial Plot
- Catherine Lord in household of Charles H Lord, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
English and French: occupational name for a chantry priest, from Middle English c(h)apelein, Old French chapelain (ultimately from Late Latin capellanus), a priest endowed to sing mass daily on behalf of the souls of the dead.
Ukrainian and Belorussian: patronymic from the nickname Chaplya, from the dialect word chaplya ‘heron, stork’, referring to a man with long, thin legs or perhaps one who was shy and easily frightened.
History: Clement Chaplin was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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