Brief Life History of Matthias
When Matthias Langley was born on 9 March 1788, in Ripple, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Langley, was 48 and his mother, Ann Sallies, was 36. He had at least 4 sons and 8 daughters with Diana Cormel. He died in 1862, in Upton on Severn, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 74.
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- Mathias Langley, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Matthias Langley, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Matthias Langley, "England and Wales, Death Registration Index, 1837-1920"
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World Events (6)
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.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called Langley or Longley (in Kent, Sussex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Somerset, Shrops, Lancashire, Durham, and many other counties), themselves from Old English lang ‘long’ + lēah ‘wood, glade, clearing’.
English: from the Middle English female personal name Langlif (Old Norse Langlíf ‘long’ + ‘life’ or ‘body’).
Americanized form of French Langlais .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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