Brief Life History of Alice
When Alice Cockle was born in 1837, in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Samuel Cockle, was 42 and her mother, Sarah Barber, was 40. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1855. In 1855, at the age of 18, her occupation is listed as bonnet maker. She died on 18 August 1855, at the age of 18, and was buried in Rock Creek, Albany, Wyoming, United States.
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- Alice Cochell in household of Samuel Cochell, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Alice Cockle, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Alice Cockle, "Find a Grave Index"
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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
1 English: locative name based on Middle English cok(k)el ‘(corn) cockle’ (Old English coccul, coccel), a weed particularly common in cornfields.
2 English: nickname from Middle English cokel (Old French cockille) ‘shell’, also ‘cockle’, the shellfish. Thuresson explains (William) Cockeler, 1332 in Thuresson (Lincs) as a gatherer of cockles, while Dauzat takes French Coquille to be a surname applied to pilgrims to the shrine of Saint James of Compostella, who sewed shells on their clothes as a sign of their pilgrimage. (Compare cockle hat (1834 OED ), a hat with a cockle or scallop shell stuck into it, worn for the same reason.)
3 English: possibly sometimes for Cockhill .
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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