Brief Life History of Frances
When Frances Adams was born on 8 December 1812, in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Adams, was 40 and her mother, Sarah Heath, was 38. She married John Massey Morris on 8 July 1868, in Sefton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Wolstanton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Burslem, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871. She died on 24 February 1879, in Bowdon, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 66, and was buried in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Fanny Morris, "England and Wales Census, 1871"
- Frances Adams, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Fanny Morris, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
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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.
1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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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