Brief Life History of Mary Ann
When Mary Ann Short was born on 15 August 1846, in Holborn, London, England, United Kingdom, her father, William John Short, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth Curtis, was 39. She married Joseph Bull on 29 April 1865. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Petaluma Judicial Township, Sonoma, California, United States in 1900 and Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States for about 20 years. She died on 5 January 1937, at the age of 90.
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- Mary A Palmer in household of James M Palmer, "United States Census, 1900"
- Mary Ann Short, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- Mary A Short in entry for Emma Palmer, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1848 · The California Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Sonoma, California, United States
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: nickname for a short person, from Middle English short ‘short’ (Old English sceort).
English: topographic name for someone who lived at a detached or cut-off piece of land (Middle English shorte, shirte, from Old English scierte, scerte, scyrte) or else a habitational name from a place so named, such as Shoart in Harbeldown (Kent) and Shuart in Saint Nicholas at Wade (Kent). Compare Shorter .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac an Gheairr, Mac an Ghirr ‘son of the short man’ (see McGirr ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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History of Elizabeth Dobney Short Brown
ELIZABETH DOBNEY SHORT BROWN Elizabeth D. Short Brown, daughter of William John Short and Elizabeth Curtis, was born in London, England, on November 24, 1841. She attended the Church of England unt …
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