When Sarah English was born on 23 July 1727, in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Richard English, was 37 and her mother, Mary Hinksman, was 38. She married Silas Woodworth on 22 September 1743, in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 29 May 1808, in Cornwallis Township, Kings, Nova Scotia, British North America, at the age of 80, and was buried in Cornwallis Township, Kings, Nova Scotia, British North America.
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The siege of Louisbourg in present day Cape Breton Island started on May 11, 1745. There was already 1500 British troops there soon 200 French arrived to fight them. Many of the fisheries in the area were destroyed which hurt the province. The battle lasted until June 28, 1745, when the French surrendered.
October 2, 1758, the Nova Scotia legislature was established. They met in a wooden building and consisted of 22 men.
English, Scottish, and Welsh: ethnic name from Middle English English, Inglish, Inglis ‘English’ (Old English Englisc), sometimes alternating with Anglo-Norman French Engleis, Engles, Anglais, Angles (Old French Englois). Compare Inglis and England . Among the aristocracy and upper gentry it marked out a man of English ancestry from one of Norman or continental origin. In counties bordering England with Scotland and Wales the name distinguished an Englishman from a Scot or a native Welshman on both sides of the border. The name may also have been acquired by English merchants who traded abroad or who lived and worked in a ‘French’ borough in England (one exclusively administered by Normans).
Irish: in Ireland, this name was used to denote an Englishman, often being adopted for Irish Aingléis ‘Englishman’ or through mistranslation for Mac an Ghallóglaigh, see Gallogly and Golightly .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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