Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Spotswood was born on 6 February 1808, in Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Spotswood, was 30 and her mother, Ann Hodgen, was 29. She married Joseph Knowles Thomas on 4 May 1828, in St John, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Saint George the Martyr Holborn, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 28 November 1890, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Margaret Thomas in household of Joseph Thomas, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Margaret Spotswood, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Margaret S Thomas, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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World Events (8)
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Spottiswoode in Westruther (Berwickshire). The placename may be from an unrecorded personal name Spott + Old English wudu ‘wood’, but there is also a Scots usage of spot in placenames to mean ‘small area or extent of land’.
History: All bearers of this surname are probably descended from Robert de Spotswood (flourished c. 1300). — Alexander Spotswood, a British army officer born in Tangiers in 1676, was appointed lieutenant governor of VA in 1710, was removed from office in 1722 for his support of VA colonists, and died in Annapolis, MD, while raising a colonial regiment to fight the Spanish.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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