Brief Life History of George
When George Hallam was born in 1755, in Calverton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Hallam, was 46 and his mother, Mary Cooper, was 42. He married Elizabeth Ford on 25 November 1776, in Calverton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters.
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- Nottinghamshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
- George Hallam in entry for Jane Hallam, "England, Nottinghamshire, Church Records, 1578-1937"
- Nottinghamshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
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1770 · Boston Tea Party
Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
1775 · The Shot Heard Around the World
"On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the ""shot heard around the world"" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England."
1787 · English Convicts Sail to Australia
The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
Name Meaning
English (North Midlands): habitational name from Halam (Nottinghamshire) or from Kirk or West Hallam (Derbyshire), all named with the Old English dative plural halum ‘(at the) nooks or corners of land’ (from Old English halh ‘nook, recess’; see Hale 1). The name may also be derived from Hallam in Sheffield (Yorkshire), sometimes called Hallamshire, named from Old English hallum ‘(at the) rocks’, the dative plural of Old English hall ‘stone, rock’, Old Norse hallr.
English: possibly a variant of Allam with prosthetic H-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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