Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Lees was christened on 19 September 1737, in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Lees, was 22 and his mother, Sarah Marland, was 19. He married Jane Duncliffe on 13 April 1762, in Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. He died on 30 November 1811, in his hometown, at the age of 74.
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- Samuel Lees, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- Saml. Lees in entry for Saml. Lees, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Samuel Lees in entry for Sarah Lees, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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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.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English lees ‘fields, arable land’, plural of lee (see Lee ), or from Middle English lese ‘pasture, meadow’ (Old English lǣs).
English: habitational name fromLeece or Lees in Lancashire, or Leese in Cheshire, all named from OldEnglish lēas ‘woodland clearings’ (plural oflēah), or from Leece in Cumbria, which was probably namedwith a Celtic word, lïss ‘hall, court, the principalhouse in a district’.
English: variant of Leece 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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