When John Tottingham was born in 1763, in Braughing, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Tottingham, was 41 and his mother, Sarah Walls, was 53. He married Elizabeth Potterill on 13 November 1788, in Braughing, Hertfordshire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He died on 1 April 1838, in Standon, Hertfordshire, England, at the age of 75.
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Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
"On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the ""shot heard around the world"" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England."
The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
English: habitational name from the city of Nottingham in the East Midlands. The placename means ‘the homestead of the people of Snot’, from the Old English personal name Snot + the groupname suffix -ingas (genitive -inga-) + hām ‘village, homestead’. The initial S- was lost in the 12th century, due to the influence of Anglo-Norman French (the combination sn- is alien to French).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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