When William Mayberry was born in 1817, in Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Mayberry II, was 11814 and his mother, Margaret Edwards, was 24. He married Eliza Thomas on 18 May 1845, in Llanvihangel Gobion, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Llanvihangel Gobion, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1861 and Llanvihangel Gobion, Monmouthshire, Wales in 1871.
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Sparked by a depression that was going through Wales the previous three years, the Merthyr uprisings were carried out by workers that were in debt. In the process, twenty-four people were killed and twenty-six were arrested. Troops were brought in to stop the protestors.
The Rebecca Riots were a group of protests in west Wales from 1839-1843. The people involved were mostly poor farmers, primarily men dressed as women. The group was called “Rebecca and her daughters”, a title believed to have come the book of Genesis. They mostly fought against the toll-gates. There is only record of one death during the riots: a young Sarah Williams had been warned that the rioters were coming, but upon refusing to leave, was killed.
English: most probably an altered form of Mowbray . It is also found as Maybury , which has the form of an English habitational name. There is a place near Woking in Surrey so called; however, this is not recorded until 1885 and is probably derived from the surname. In England this surname is found mainly in the West Midlands; it has also spread into Wales. In Ireland this form is common in Ulster; MacLysaght records that it was taken there from England in the 17th century.
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