Brief Life History of Joseph Morris
When Joseph Morris Salisbury was born on 15 February 1852, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Salisbury, was 35 and his mother, Ann Morris, was 32. He married Miranda Ramsden on 7 October 1875. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 22 April 1898, in West Valley City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Elysian Burial Gardens, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Joseph Salisbury in household of William Salisbury, "United States Census, 1860"
- Joseph Salisbury, "England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1852"
- Marriage of Morris Joseph Salisbury to Anna Rose Schauder in 1921.
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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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name primarily from Salesbury in Blackburn (Lancashire) but also occasionally from Salisbury (Wiltshire). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English salh ‘willow, sallow’ + burg ‘fortress’, while the Wiltshire placename arises from a shortened form of the Celtic placename Sorviodunum (from an unknown initial element + Celtic dūno- ‘fort’). In the Old English period the second element was dropped and Sorvio- (of unexplained etymology) became Searo- in Old English as the result of folk etymological association the Old English word searu ‘trick’; to this an explanatory burh ‘fortress, manor, town’ was added. The city is recorded in the Domesday Book as Sarisberie; the change of -r- to -l- is the result of later dissimilation.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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