Brief Life History of Caroline
When Caroline Greenwood was born on 20 April 1839, in Morton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Richard Greenwood, was 37 and her mother, Sarah Lockwood, was 37. She married Lawson Clayton on 22 December 1860, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Bingley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and North Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States in 1880. She died on 9 August 1882, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in North Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Caroline Clayton in household of Lawson Clayton, "United States Census, 1880"
- Emma Caroline Greenwood, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Caroline Greenwood Clayton, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Greenwood Lee in Heptonstall (Yorkshire), from Middle English grene ‘green’ + wode ‘wood’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Grünholz, an ornamental compound of German grün ‘green’ + Holz ‘wood’, and probably also of the same German surname.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Grünwald (see Grunwald ), and of French Boisvert .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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