Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Pope was born in 1752, in Donyatt, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Pope, was 21 and her mother, Ann Bevis, was 20. She married Edward Challis in 1774, in Ilminster, Somerset, England. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She died in 1820, at the age of 68, and was buried in Donyatt, Somerset, England, United Kingdom.
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- Mary Pope, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Mary in entry for Edward Chalice, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Mary in entry for Elizabeth Chalice, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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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: nickname from Middle English pope (derived via Old English from Late Latin papa ‘bishop, pope’, from Greek pappas ‘father’, in origin a nursery word.) In the early Christian Church, the Latin term was at first used as a title of respect for male clergy of every rank, but in the Western Church it gradually came to be restricted to bishops, and then only to the bishop of Rome; in the Eastern Church it continued to be used of all priests (see Popov , Papas ). The nickname would have been used for a vain or pompous man, or for someone who had played the part of the pope in a pageant or play. The surname is also present in Ireland and Scotland.
North German: variant of Poppe .
German: translation of Pabst .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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