♀ Margaret Lackey

1767 - 1854

 

Peggy

Margaret Lackey
Parents
Thomas Lackey Sr.
Thomas Lackey Sr.
1728 - 1801
Agnes Leech
Agnes Leech
1730 - 1814
Spouse
Children
Samuel Miller
Samuel Miller
1805 - 1891

Margaret Lackey and her husband had 13 children, 6 girls and 7 boys.  Their home was known far and wide as a place of true hospitality.  Described as having had brown eyes and black hair, Margaret was known as "Aunt Peggy" to the many relatives who came to visit the Old Miller Homestead in Rockbridge.  As the Millers, Uncle Sam and Aunt Pegg were known widely and were greatly beloved.

1787


Dec 19
Age: 21y
1787 • Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth in England with the eleven ships of the First Fleet carrying around 700 convicts and at least 300 crew and guards to establish a penal colony in Australia.

1850


Dec 3
Age: 84y
1850 • The treaty called Punctation of Olmütz is signed in Olomouc. It means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to the Austrian Empire, which takes over the leadership of the German Confederation.

1854


Age: 87y
1854 • Battle of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands (which later became part of Finland - in 1920:) The Royal Navy seaman's mate Charles D. Lucas throws a live Russian artillery shell overboard by hand before it explodes, for which he was awarded the first Victoria Cross in 1857.

1854

1854 Charles Dickens commences writing the novel Hard Times.

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