Brief Life History of Jemima
When Jemima Love was christened on 1 July 1759, in Tunstall, Kent, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Love, was 39 and her mother, Jemima Fearn, was 26. She married Thomas Weller on 5 May 1785. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter.
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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.
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.
Name Meaning
English: from a Middle English personal name derived from the Old English female name Lufu ‘love’, or the masculine equivalent Lufa. Compare Leaf 2.
English and Scottish: nickname from Anglo-Norman French love ‘she-wolf’ or simply ‘wolf’, the word love being a back-formation from the diminutive forms lovel and lovet ‘little wolf’. See also Low 3, from Anglo-Norman French lou, the more usual form of the word.
Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhionghuin (see McKinnon ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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