When Thomas William Beckett was born on 20 January 1874, in Walsall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Beckett, was 39 and his mother, Jane Mills, was 30. He lived in Walsall, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom in 1881. He died on 27 September 1883, in Walsall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 9.
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The Bacup Natural History Society was established in 1878 in Lancashire. It holds a collection of over 4,000 photos, slides, and documents. It holds many different artifacts from military to fossils.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
English and Irish (of Norman origin): nickname from Old French, Middle English beket ‘small beak’ (a diminutive of Old French bec ‘beak or mouth’), perhaps with reference to someone with a small beak-like mouth or a prominent nose (compare Beck 4), though the Middle English word appears to have had a wide range of applications denoting ‘pointed objects’, including ‘corbel, kind of arrow, kind of bird’, and ‘kind of fish’. This surname is also found in Ireland, especially in Antrim.
English: habitational name from any of the places called Beckett in Berkshire and Devon. The former is named with Old English bēo ‘bee’ + cot ‘cottage, shelter’; the latter has as its first element the Old English personal name Bicca.
Altered form of Bequette , a surname of French origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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