Brief Life History of Jesse
When Jesse Holden was christened on 27 May 1759, in Billingshurst, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, his father, James "Jesse" Holden, was 28 and his mother, Jane Brockhurst, was 21. He married Mary Brockhurst on 12 May 1785, in Pulborough, Sussex, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died in 1846, at the age of 87.
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- Jesse Holding, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Jesse Holden, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Jessey Holding in entry for Jas. Holding, "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: habitational name from one or more of various places so named, especially Holden in Haslingden (Lancashire), but also Holden in Bolton and Holden in Silsden (both Yorkshire), Holedean Farm in Henfield and Holden in Rotherfield (both Sussex), Holding Farm in Cheriton and Woolding Farm in Whitchurch (Hampshire), and Holden in Southborough (Kent). Most of the placenames derive from Old English hol ‘hollow’ + denu ‘valley’, though Holden in Rotherfield (Sussex) and Holden in Southborough (Kent) may have Old English denn ‘pasture’ as the final element. Compare Holcomb .
Norwegian: habitational name from the name of several farms, most of them derived from Old Norse hǫll ‘slope, hillside’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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