Researching Timothy Arthur
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The name Timothy means "honoring God" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Timothy Arthur on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Timothy Arthur and the Arthur Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Arthur Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Arthur family tree.
Look at Parish Records for Timothy Arthur at Find My Past.
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Arthur Family History Databases
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Arthur Forums
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Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Timothy Arthur. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Timothy Arthur
Timothy Shay Arthur
Timothy Shay Arthur (June 6, 1809 – March 6, 1885) — known as T. S. Arthur — was a popular 19th-century American author. He is famously known for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public.
His stories, written with compassion and sensitivity, articulated and spread values and ideas that were associated with “respectable middle class“ life in America. He also believed greatly in the transformative and restorative power of love as is shown in one of his stories, "An Angel in Disguise".
He was also the author of dozens of stories for Godey's Lady's Book, the most popular American monthly magazine in the antebellum era, and he published and edited his own Arthur's Home Magazine, a periodical in the Godey's model, for many years. Virtually forgotten now, Arthur did much to articulate and disseminate the values, beliefs, and habits that defined respectable, decorous middle-class life in America.
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