Brief Life History of Christian
When Christian Kinghorn was born on 2 June 1811, in Newton Village, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, George Kinghorn, was 19 and her mother, Elizabeth Hislop, was 18. She married Robert Archibald on 22 October 1835, in Whitburn, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1861 and lived in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851 and Inveresk, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1861. In 1880, at the age of 69, her occupation is listed as mid-wife. She died on 13 January 1902, in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Spanish Fork City Cemetery, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Christina Archibald, "United States Census, 1900"
- Birth and Baptism record of Christian Kinghorn
- 1835 Scotland Marriage of Christina Kinghorn & Robert Archibald
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World Events (8)
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1815 · Manchester Dock in Liverpool Built
In 1815, the Manchester Dock in Liverpool was constructed by John Foster Sr. It was an important gateway for coal and manufactured goods mainly corn and cotton. It closed in 1929.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from the barony of Kinghorn in Fife. This is recorded as Kyngorn in 1374; it is named in Gaelic from ceann ‘head, height’ + gronna ‘bog’. The modern spelling is the result of folk etymology.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Elizabeth Hislop Where Are You Now?
Kinghorns of Newton In the years following the war with Mexico (1846), California and Oregon were the two words that described all of what we now think of as the American West. And California wa …
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