When Harriet Bentley was born on 8 April 1828, in Limehouse, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Bentley, was 30 and her mother, Harriet Westmore, was 27. She married George Willis on 9 April 1852, in Bromley-by-Bow, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in London, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and London, England in 1871. She died on 20 September 1871, in Poplar, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 43, and was buried in East London, London, England, United Kingdom.
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"The popular childhood rhyme ""London Bridge is Falling Down"" refers to the infamous overpass above the Thames River. By the 19th century the bridge had started to fall apart."
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English: habitational name from any of various places, the chief of which are in Derbyshire, Essex, Hampshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and East and South Yorkshire. The placename is from Old English beonet ‘bent grass’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of South German Bentele or of its Swiss German or South German cognates Bandle and Bandli.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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