When Alice Melling was born in 1768, in Up Holland, Lancashire, England, her father, Edward Melling, was 24 and her mother, Jane Cross, was 30. She married Thomas Horrocks on 4 November 1798, in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She died in April 1813, in Up Holland, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 45, and was buried in Up Holland, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
"On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the ""shot heard around the world"" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England."
The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
English (Lancashire): habitational name from any of the places near Lancaster and near Liverpool. Both are probably so called from an Old English personal name Mealla + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas.
Irish: variant of Mellon .
German: habitational name from a place called Mellingen (see Mellinger ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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