When Hannah Louisa Richins was born on 9 September 1852, in Cranham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Charles Wager Richins, was 24 and her mother, Louisa Shill, was 23. She died on 18 August 1854, in Fort Kearny, Otoe, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 1.
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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.
On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
English: from the Middle English personal name Ricun, a diminutive of Rich , itself a pet form of Richard , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. It appears that a dialectally different (Norman or Picard) form of the French name, with medial /-k-/, also survived in England for a time alongside forms with original /-tʃ-/.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesHannah Louisa Richins, born 9 September 1852 in Cranham, Gloucestershire, England; died 18 August 1854 near Fort Kearney, Nebraska. Remembered at the Pioneer Children’s Memorial, This is the Place He …
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