Jane Bright

Brief Life History of Jane

When Jane Bright was born on 26 August 1750, in Enmore, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Bright, was 39 and her mother, Joan Berriman, was 40. She died about 1780, in her hometown, at the age of 31.

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Family Time Line

William Bright
1711–1787
Joan Berriman
1711–1801
Elizabeth Bright
1737–
Edith Bright
1742–1805
Elizabeth Bright
1745–
Mary Bright
1752–
Grace Bright
1753–1820
William Bright
1740–
Joan Bright
1747–1834
Grace Buttell
1750–1786
Jane Bright
1750–about 1780
John Bright
1756–1831
Andrew Bright
1758–

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    Name Meaning

    English: usually a nickname from Middle English bright ‘bright, good-looking, fresh-faced’ (Old English beorht ‘bright, shining’).

    English: perhaps occasionally from an unrecorded Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Briht, Beorht, from a short form of any of several Old English personal names of which beorht was the first element, such as Beorhtrīc ‘bright’ + ‘powerful’. Compare Bert .

    Americanized form of German Brecht .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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