Brief Life History of Charles
When Charles Leach was born about 1867, in Chieveley, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Joseph Leech, was 29 and his mother, Jane May, was 31.
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- Charles Leach in household of James May, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Legacy NFS Source: Charles Leach - Government record: birth-name: Charles Leach
- Charles Leach in household of William Leach, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
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World Events (8)
1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
1904 · The Entente Cordiale
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a physician, from Middle English leche, lache ‘physician’ (Old English lǣce ‘leech; physician, blood-letter, surgeon’). The name refers to the medieval medical practice of bleeding, typically by applying leeches to a patient. The surname is recorded in the late 14th-century Poll Tax Returns for men whose occupation is stated as medicus ‘physician’, or occasionally spicer (spicers acted as apothecaries), but some men named le Leche have unrelated occupations including cultor ‘cultivator, farm laborer’, which suggests that leche could refer to an amateur ‘medicine man’ who supplied folk remedies.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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