Brief Life History of Hannah
When Hannah Rowland was born in 1778, in Llywel, Breconshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Rowland, was 38 and her mother, Mary Zachariah, was 40. She married Thomas Thomas on 5 May 1799, in Llandingat, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1841. She died on 23 August 1865, in Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 87, and was buried in Llandingat, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom.
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- 1861 British Census, Llandovery [Llandingad Parish], Carmarthenshire, Wales (Hannah Rowland Thomas)
- Hannah Thomas, "Wales Marriages, 1541-1900"
- Death Certificate, British Civil Registration (Hannah Thomas)
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1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1831 · Merthyr Uprising
Sparked by a depression that was going through Wales the previous three years, the Merthyr uprisings were carried out by workers that were in debt. In the process, twenty-four people were killed and twenty-six were arrested. Troops were brought in to stop the protestors.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Rollant, Rolant, Rolent, Roulent (ancient Germanic Hrodland, Rodland, from hrōd ‘glory’ + land ‘land’), introduced into England by the Normans. It was made famous by French romances about Roland, the most famous of the peers of Charlemagne who was killed at Roncesvalles in AD 778. Although widely used across post-Conquest England (along with Oliver, the name of Roland's companion), it seems to have been restricted to particular gentry families and was never popular. Compare Roland .
English: habitational name from Rowland (Derbyshire) or Rowland Wood in Slinfold (Sussex). The Derbyshire placename derives from Old Norse rá ‘roe, roe buck’ or rá ‘land mark, boundary’ + lúndr ‘small wood, grove’. The Sussex placename probably derives from Middle English roughe ‘rough’ + lond ‘land’ (Old English rūh, land).
English: in northern England and perhaps elsewhere, perhaps a post-medieval variant of Rawling . Compare Rawlinson , Rollinson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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