Brief Life History of John
When John Beal II was born on 10 July 1801, in Wells, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Beal I, was 26 and his mother, Christian Lewis, was 28. He married Ann Deacon on 14 March 1832, in Huntspill, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1860 and Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 4 December 1896, in Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Ephraim Pioneer Cemetery, Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- John Beal, "United States Census, 1870"
- England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
- Dorset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1824
EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER A Gustram BIRTH 24 Nov 1821 DEATH 3 Oct 1824 (aged 2) BURIAL Ephraim Pioneer Cemetery Ephraim, Sanpete County, Utah, USA PLOT 13 MEMORIAL ID 67193998 · View Source
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
English (of Norman origin): variant of Beale , from Old French bel(e) ‘fair, lovely’ (see Beau ), either a nickname for a handsome man or a metronymic from this word used as a female personal name.
English (northern): habitational name from any of the places so named in Northumberland and Yorkshire. The former of these (Behil in early records) is named with Old English bēo ‘bee’ + hyll ‘hill’; the latter (Begale in Domesday Book) with Old English bēag ‘ring’, here probably used in the sense ‘river bend’, or an unattested personal name Bēaga derived from this word + halh ‘nook, recess’ (see Beagle 2). An additional source may be Beald, a farm in Cambridgeshire, recorded as Bele super Dedhil, c. 1195. In Lincolnshire, the surname is perhaps from a word or name for a farm derived from Scandinavian bøli ‘farm’.
French (Béal): topographic name for someone who lived by a mill race, from the Lyonnaise dialect term béal, bezale, bedale (of Gaulish origin).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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