Brief Life History of William
When William Brice was born in 1724, his father, Thomas Brice butcher, was 41 and his mother, Jane Saxby, was 37.
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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
Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Antoine, Cecile, Chantal, Chantale, Damien, Donat, Franck, Ghislaine, Jacques, Jean Claude, Jean Francois.
French, English, and Scottish: from the Old French personal name Brice, probably Celtic (Gaulish) in origin but not firmly explained (Latinized as Bri(c)tius, Bric(c)ius, or Brixius), which was borne by a 5th-century Christian saint who succeeded Saint Martin as bishop of Tours. Consequently, it became a popular personal name in France and Germany in the early Middle Ages. It was imported to England and Scotland by the Normans. Compare German Brixius .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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