Brief Life History of Swanny
When Swanny Budge was born on 1 September 1804, in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, John Budge, was 28 and his mother, Helen Bain, was 37.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Swany Budge, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
Parents and Siblings
1776– Male
1768– Female
Siblings (13)
1791– Male
1792– Male
1793– Female
1794– Female
1796– Male
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World Events (8)
1811 · The Tron Riot
Age 7
1815
Age 11
1838 · Jenners Department Store Opens its doors
Age 34
Name Meaning
English (mainly Devon and Cornwall):
nickname from Norman French buge ‘mouth’ (Old French bouche, Late Latin bucca), applied either to someone with a large or misshapen mouth or to someone who made excessive use of his mouth, i.e. a garrulous, indiscreet, or gluttonous person. The word is also recorded in Middle English in the sense ‘victuals supplied for retainers on a military campaign’, and the surname may therefore also have arisen as a metonymic occupational name for a medieval quartermaster.
variant of Bugg .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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