When Georgina Berry was born on 14 December 1834, in South Molton, Devon, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Berry, was 29 and her mother, Mary Ann Dobbs, was 29. She married John Chapple Sparks on 13 October 1857, in Bishops Nympton, Devon, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Devon, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 27 January 1876, in Kelton, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Kelton, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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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.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Irish and Manx: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Béara ‘descendant of Béara’, a personal name of unexplained etymology; or, in some cases, perhaps an Anglicized form of Irish and Manx Ó Beargha. Compare Barry 1.
Scottish and northern Irish: variant of Barrie .
English: habitational name from any of several places called in Devon named with Old English byrig, dative case of burh ‘fortified manor house, stronghold’, such as Berry Pomeroy and Berrynarbor.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related Names1943 Kelton Written by Mavin Sparks In the fall of 1943, my father, Will Sparks and I camped overnight at Kelton when we were trailing a herd of sheep through there, going to the desert winterground …
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