Brief Life History of Bennett Towers
When Bennett Towers Simpson was born on 14 September 1888, in Goole, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James R Simpson, was 33 and his mother, Mary Brooks, was 30. He married Alice Yates on 15 June 1911, in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 18 November 1974, in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 86, and was buried in Kootenay Boundary, British Columbia, Canada.
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- Bennett T Simpson in household of James Simpson, "England and Wales Census, 1901"
- Bennett Towers Simpson, "British Columbia Marriage Registrations, 1859-1932; 1937-1938"
- Bennett Towers Simpson, "United Kingdom, Royal Air Force Service Records, 1912-1945"
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1901 · East Lancashire Royal Engineers
The East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a group of volunteers in a unit of Britian's Royal Engineers. They were started in Manchester in 1901. They fought on the western front during WWI and were part of the Dunkirk Evacuation during WWII.
1908
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1914
Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m), Sime (see Sim ) + -son.
English: occasionally a variant of Sumsion with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant, a dialect feature of southwestern England.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson, all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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