Elizabeth Bright

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Bright was born about 9 August 1745, in Enmore, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Bright, was 34 and her mother, Joan Berriman, was 35. She died in her hometown.

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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
1750–1780
John Bright
1756–1831
Andrew Bright
1758–

Sources (2)

  • Elizabeth Bright, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • Elizabeth Bright, "England, Somerset, Church Records, 1501-1999"

World Events (5)

1801 · The Act of Union

The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.

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.

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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