When Charles Quinton was born on 21 March 1662, in Downton, Wiltshire, England, his father, Thomas Quinton, was 25 and his mother, Mary Margaret King, was 21. He had at least 4 sons and 2 daughters with Elizabeth Rooke.
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The Glorious Revolution brought the downfall of Catholic King James II and the reign of his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange.
The South Sea Bubble Bill was passed by the House of Lords in 1720. This allowed the South Sea company to monopolize trade with South America. The company underwrote the English National Debt which promised 5% interest from the government. As shares rose exponentially, many companies were created and many fortunes were made. The stocks crashed and many people lost their money which caused them to become destitute overnight and suicide was common. Robert Walpole took charge of the South Sea Bubble Financial Crisis by dividing the national debt between the Bank of England, the Treasury, and the Sinking Fund.
Gregorian calendar was adopted in England in 1752. That year, Wednesday, September 2, 1752, was followed by Thursday, September 14th, 1752, which caused the country to skip ahead eleven days.
English: from the Old French and Middle English personal name Quentin, Quintin (Latin Quintinus, a suffixed form of quintus ‘fifth’), popular in France from the cult of Saint Quentin of Amiens, and brought to England by the Normans. The surname was altered to Quinton by association with the placenames in 2 below.
English: habitational name from from any of three places called Quinton (Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire, Worcestershire) or from Quainton (Buckinghamshire). The placenames probably derive from Old English cwēn ‘queen’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, or perhaps from Old English cwene ‘woman’ + tūn or an Old English personal name Cwēna + Old English connective -ing- + tūn.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Saint-Quentin (Manche) in France or possibly from Saint-Quentin-en-Tourmont (Somme), the site of the martyrdom of Saint Quentin of Amiens, a 3rd-century Roman missionary to Gaul. It is not certain that this surname survived into the modern period.
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