Brief Life History of Richard W.
When Richard W. Buckley was born in February 1910, in Boone, Iowa, United States, his father, Robert Buckley, was 43 and his mother, Angelina Elsberry, was 40. He married Olive Vivian Olson on 16 December 1933, in Forest City, Winnebago, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. He lived in Linden Township, Winnebago, Iowa, United States in 1930 and Forest City, Winnebago, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1946. He died on 19 October 1964, in Mason City, Cerro Gordo, Iowa, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Madison Township, Hancock, Iowa, United States.
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Sources (19)
- Richard W Buckley, "United States 1950 Census"
- Richard Buckley, "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935"
- Iowa, Marriage Records
Spouse and Children
1910–1964 Male
1914–1982 Female
Children (6)
1931– Male
1934–2002 Male
1936– Male
1937– Male
1942–2004 Male
+1 More Child
Parents and Siblings
1866–1941 Male
1869–1953 Female
Siblings (10)
1887–1953 Female
1889–1974 Male
1891–1971 Male
1894–1961 Female
1897–1961 Female
+5 More Children
World Events (8)
1912 · The Girl Scouts
Age 2
1913 · The Completion of the Keokuk Dam
Age 3
1926 · Iowa becomes a provider of food to the world
Age 16
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places so named, most of which are from Old English bucc ‘buck, male deer’ or bucca ‘he-goat’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Places called Buckley and Buckleigh, in Devon, are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + clif ‘cliff’.
English: in Somerset perhaps alternatively, a variant of the now extinct Bugley, a habitational name from Bugley in Dorset or Wiltshire, named from the Old English female personal name Bucge + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buachalla ‘descendant of Buachaill’, a byname meaning ‘cowherd, servant’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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