Brief Life History of Charles Francis
When Charles Francis Greenland was born in 1837, in Shepherds Bush, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Hughes Greenland, was 37 and his mother, Maria Austin, was 30. He married Annie Callerne Palmer on 4 October 1869, in Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Lewisham, Kent, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and London, England in 1901. He died in 1933, in Lewisham, London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 96.
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- Charles F Greenland, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
- Charles Francis Greenland, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
- Charles Francis Greenland, "England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988"
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World Events (8)
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1852 · First Public Lavatory Erected
George Jenning was the person that invented and gave us the public lavatory. It cost people a penny to use.
1868 · Abolition of Public Hangings at Newgate
On May 26, 1868 the Capital Punishment Act was put into action. This made it so that public hangings no longer existed at Newgate in London.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) green meadow’, Middle English grene, grein + land, or a habitational name from a minor place so named.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Groenland and possibly also of German Grönland: habitational name from any of several farmsteads or hamlets so named, with the same meaning as 1 above, from Dutch groen, Low German grön ‘green’ + land ‘land’. The surname Grönland is very rare in Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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