When James Squire was born on 3 January 1656, in Charlton Horethorne, Somerset, England, his father, Jacobi Squier, was 49 and his mother, Elizabeth James, was 45. He married Mrs. Elizabeth Squire about 1682, in Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, England. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Chard, Somerset, England, United Kingdom in 1656. He died in 1700, in England, at the age of 44, and was buried in Moorlinch, Somerset, England.
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The Glorious Revolution brought the downfall of Catholic King James II and the reign of his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange.
English: status name, occupational name, or a nickname from Middle English squyer, squer, skier, sker, northern Middle English swire (Old French escuyer, escuier) ‘shield bearer, esquire, personal attendant to a knight; landowner below the rank of knight; young man of gentle birth; household attendant, retainer, page, messenger’. Many early bearers of this name were of modest means and cannot have been members of the gentry; in such cases the name may have been used hyperbolically for a low-ranking servant or as a nickname. By the 17th century, the term denoted any member of the landed gentry, but this is unlikely to have influenced the development of the surname.
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