Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Mills was born on 31 January 1768, in Somerset, England, United Kingdom, her father, George Mills III, was 29 and her mother, Preslar Priscilla Perry, was 32. She married Humphery Stembridge on 15 May 1787, in Crewkerne, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.
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- Mary Mills, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Mary Stembridge in entry for Betty Stembridge, "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Mills - Church record: birth: ; Crewkerne, Somerset, England, United Kingdom
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1770 · Boston Tea Party
Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
1775 · The Shot Heard Around the World
On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the "shot heard around the world" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England.
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Mill 1, with excrescent -s added in post-medieval times. Compare Mullins , from a French equivalent of this name, and see also Milnes .
English: either a variant of Miles , a variant of Mill 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or Myhill , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: this is usually the English name, especially in Ulster, but elsewhere in Ireland it was also adopted for the Gaelic topographic byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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