Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Flood was born in 1795, in Great Fransham, Norfolk, England, her father, Ham Flood, was 23 and her mother, Alice Orton, was 31. She married Jeremiah Bush on 22 January 1817, in Swaffham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 3 April 1856, in Jerrawa Creek, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 61, and was buried in Jerrawa Creek, New South Wales, Australia.
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- Mary Flood, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Mary Flood Bush, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mary Bush in entry for Elizabeth Bush, "England, Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941"
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1801
Lieutenant John Murray lands at a bay he names Port Phillip.
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.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English flod, flud(e) ‘stream’ (Old English flōd) or ‘channel, gutter’ (Old English flōde), for someone who lived beside such a feature or who lived at a place so called, such as Flood in Drewsteignton and Fludda in Hennock, both in Devon.
Welsh: variant of Floyd , an Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Llwyd (see Lloyd ).
Irish: translation into English of various names correctly or erroneously associated with Gaelic tuile ‘flood’ (see Toole and Tully ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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