Brief Life History of Robert
When Robert Simpson was born on 16 March 1770, in Norwich, Norfolk, England, his father, Robert Simpson, was 31 and his mother, Barbara Wells, was 27. He married Mary Shakespear on 18 April 1796, in Great Wakering, Essex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters.
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- Robert Simpson, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Robert Simpson in entry for John Simpson, "England, Essex Parish Registers, 1538-1997"
- Robert Simpson, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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World Events (2)
1775 · The Shot Heard Around the World
"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."
1787 · English Convicts Sail to Australia
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m), Sime (see Sim ) + -son.
English: occasionally a variant of Sumsion with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant, a dialect feature of southwestern England.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson, all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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