Brief Life History of Mary Ann Adams
When Mary Ann Adams Darby was born in 1814, in Devon, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Darby, was 29 and her mother, Nancy Adams, was 25. She married John Walker on 8 February 1835, in Exeter St Leonard, Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died in 1846, in Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 32.
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- Mary Ann Adams Darby, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Mary Ann Adams Darby, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- Mary Anne in entry for Emily Walker, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of Derby, the county seat of Derbyshire, but also from the much smaller place called West Derby in Lancashire. Both are named from Old Norse djúr ‘deer’ + bȳ ‘farm, settlement’. This form of the surname represents the pronunciation of both the placename and the surname.
Irish: adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Diarmada (or Mac Diarmada) ‘descendant (or ‘son’) of Diarmaid’, a personal name meaning ‘freeman’. See also Dermott , McDermott . Gaelic Ó Duibhdhiormaigh was sometimes reinterpreted as Ó Diarmada, and Darby could also be an Anglicized form of this name. The English surname is also established in Ireland, having been taken to County Leix in the 16th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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