Sarah Bright

Brief Life History of Sarah

When Sarah Bright was born about 24 October 1779, in Enmore, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Bright, was 23 and her mother, Anne Gunningham, was 23.

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Family Time Line

John Bright
1756–1831
Anne Gunningham
1756–
Sarah Bright
1779–
Mary Bright
1781–
Grace Bright
1783–
Ann Bright
1785–
John Bright
1788–1866
Joan Bright
1791–1853
Andrew Bright
1793–1852

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    World Events (8)

    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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