Brief Life History of Lewis
When Lewis Adams was born on 11 July 1805, in Bagnall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Adams, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Heath, was 31. He died on 23 September 1850, in Wolstanton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 45, and was buried in Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Lewis Adams, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Lewis Adams, "England, Staffordshire, Church Records, 1538-1944"
- Ten Generations Of A Potting Family: Founded Upon "William Adams, An Old English Potter"
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1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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