Brief Life History of Thomas
Thomas Berkeley was born in 1446, in Tonbridge, Kent, England as the son of Isabel PERSALL. He died on 13 May 1488, in Tudeley, Kent, England, at the age of 42, and was buried in Wymondham, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Henry Vane - birth:
- Thomas Berkeley, "Find A Grave Index"
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1455 · Wars of the Roses
Wars of the Roses was a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England between the royal families House of Lancaster and the House of York. The name of the war was derived as the red rose was the symbol of the Lancastrians and the white rose was the symbol of the Yorks.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from one or more of the numerous places so named, such as Berkeley in Gloucestershire, named in Old English with be(o)rc ‘birch’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Compare Scottish Barclay .
Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of Berkowitz .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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