Ann Rivers was born in 1774, in Wales, United Kingdom. She married John Lewington in 1801, in Llanarth, Cardiganshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter.
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The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
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: variant of River , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Larivière (see Lariviere ).
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