Brief Life History of Martha
When Martha Munro was born on 5 August 1807, in Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Nathaniel Munroe, was 23 and her mother, Martha (Patty) Lewis, was 21. She died on 14 January 1830, at the age of 22.
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- Martha Munro, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
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World Events (7)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic Rothach ‘man from Ro’. According to tradition which may be substantially correct, the ancestors of the Munros came from Ireland, from the foot of the river Roe in Derry, whence the name Bun-rotha, giving Mun-rotha by eclipsis of b after the preposition in’. See also Monroe , compare Munroe .
Irish (Meath): variant of Mulroy .
History: This (see 1 above) is the name of a Scottish clan with an ancestral seat at Foulis Castle, near Evanton, Ross-shire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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