Brief Life History of Thomas Hughes
When Thomas Hughes Greenland was born on 13 July 1800, in London England Temple, Newchapel, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, his father, Charles Francis Greenland, was 35 and his mother, Mary Finlayson, was 31. He married Maria Austin on 9 September 1825, in Newington, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Hammersmith, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and London, England in 1861. He died on 20 December 1876, in Ramsgate, Kent, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 76, and was buried in Ramsgate Cemetery, Ramsgate, Kent, England, United Kingdom.
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- Thos H Greenland, "England and Wales Census, 1861"
- Thomas Hughes Greenland, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- Thomas Hughes Greenland, "England and Wales, Index to Death Duty Registers, 1796-1903"
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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.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) green meadow’, Middle English grene, grein + land, or a habitational name from a minor place so named.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Groenland and possibly also of German Grönland: habitational name from any of several farmsteads or hamlets so named, with the same meaning as 1 above, from Dutch groen, Low German grön ‘green’ + land ‘land’. The surname Grönland is very rare in Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Birth, Death, Burial Information
Thomas Hughes Greenland BIRTH 17 Jun 1800 Twickenham, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, England DEATH 20 Dec 1876 (aged 76) Thanet District, Kent, England BURIAL Ramsgate Cemete …
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