Brief Life History of Grace
When Grace Bright was born about 8 July 1753, in Enmore, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Bright, was 41 and her mother, Joan Berriman, was 43. She married Thomas Gibbs on 27 May 1771, in Weston, Somerset, England. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 4 November 1820, at the age of 67, and was buried in Weston, Somerset, England, United Kingdom.
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- Grace Bright Gibbs, "Find A Grave Index"
- Grace in entry for Martha Gibbs, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Grace in entry for Martha Gibbs, "England, Somerset, Church Records, 1501-1999"
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World Events (3)
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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