Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Norman was born about 1790, in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Norman, was 31 and her mother, Mary Nicols, was 30. She married John Bewsher on 14 October 1822, in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Bedford St Paul, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died in December 1855, in Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 66.
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- Elizabeth Bewsher, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Elizabeth Norman, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Elizabeth Norman, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
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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, Irish (Dublin and Cork), and Scottish: ethnic or habitational name applied either to a Scandinavian or to someone from Normandy in northern France. The Scandinavian adventurers of the Dark Ages called themselves northmenn ‘men from the North’. Before 1066, Scandinavian settlers in England were already fairly readily absorbed, and Northman and Normann came to be used as bynames and later as personal names, even among the Saxon inhabitants. The term gained a new use from 1066 onward, when England was settled by invaders from Normandy, who were likewise of Scandinavian origin but by now largely integrated with the native population and speaking a Romance language, retaining only their original ancient Germanic name.
English: from the Middle English personal name Norman (recorded in the late Old English period as Northman), derived from northman ‘northerner’.
Americanized form of German Normann .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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