Brief Life History of Elias
When Elias Morris was born on 30 June 1825, in Llanfair-Dyffryn-Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, John Morris, was 31 and his mother, Barbara Thomas, was 31. He married Mary Elizabeth Parry on 23 May 1852, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 17 March 1898, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Elias Morris, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Elias Morris, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Elias Morris, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
1842 · Mines and Collieries Act of 1842
The Parliment of the United Kingdom passed the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842, mostly commonly known as the Mines Act of 1842. This act made it so that nobody under the age of ten could work in the mines and also females in general could not be employed.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from Maurice, an Old French personal name introduced to Britain by the Normans. It is derived from Latin Mauritius, a derivative of Maurus (see Moore ). This was the name of several early Christian saints. In some cases it may be a nickname of the same derivation for someone with a swarthy complexion.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muirghis, a variant of Ó Muirgheasa (see Morrissey ).
Welsh: Anglicized form of the personal name Meurig (from Latin Mauritius), which was gradually superseded in Wales by Morus, Morys, a derivative of the Anglo-Norman French form of the name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Biographical Sketch of Elias Morris Some dictionaries give the name of Morris as being derived from Moorish, connoting among other meanings :Moorish dancers:. Nothing could be historically further r …
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