Brief Life History of William
When William Duce was born on 5 April 1750, in Leek, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Duce, was 20 and his mother, Hannah Washington, was 11747. He died on 7 July 1834, in his hometown, at the age of 84, and was buried in Leek, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- William Duce, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- William Duce, "England, Staffordshire, Church Records, 1538-1944"
- William Duce, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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World Events (4)
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: variant of Dowse , a nickname from Middle English douce, dowce ‘sweet, pleasant’ (Old French dolz, dous, later doux). The name was sometimes used as a woman's personal name and occasionally used for a man. Alternatively, the name may arise from the Middle English personal name Douce, occasionally male but mostly female, borrowed from Old French Douce (from Latin Dulcia, derived from Latin dulcis ‘sweet’). The variant Duce is mostly pronounced to rhyme with loose, in contrast with Dowse, mostly pronounced to rhyme with house.
Italian: nickname from duce ‘leader, chief’, from Latin dux.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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