Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane James was born about 1791, in Cornwall, England, her father, John James, was 31 and her mother, Jane, was 28. She married Joel James Trounson on 29 August 1822, in Redruth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died in 1835, in Redruth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 45, and was buried in St Hilary, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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- Jane James, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Jane James, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- Jane Trounson, "England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010"
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World Events (6)
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
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name James. Introduced to England by the Normans, this is an Old French form of Late Latin Iacomus, a variant of Latin Iacobus, Greek Iakōbos, the New Testament rendering of Hebrew Ya‘aqob (see Jacob ). The medieval Latin (Vulgate) Bible distinguished between Old Testament Iacob (which was uninflected) and New Testament Iacobus (with inflections). The latter developed into James in medieval French. The distinction was carried over into the King James Bible of 1611, and Jacob and James remain as separate names in English usage. Most European languages, however, make no such distinction, so that forms such as French Jacques , stand for both the Old and the New Testament names. This surname is also very common among African Americans. Compare Jack .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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