Brief Life History of Agnes Elizabeth
When Agnes Elizabeth Boyce was born in June 1858, in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, her father, Christopher Boyce, was 26 and her mother, Sarah Baker, was 26. She married Bell Hammond in 1879, in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Hunstanton, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom in 1871.
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- Agnes E Boyce in household of Christopher Boyce, "England and Wales Census, 1871"
- Legacy NFS Source: Agnes Elizabeth Boyce - Published information: birth-name: Agnes Elizabeth Boyce
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1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
1904 · The Entente Cordiale
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
Name Meaning
English and Irish (mainly Donegal): of Norman origin, a habitational name from from one or more places in Normandy named with Old French bois ‘wood, grove’, especially Bois-Arnault and Bus-Saint-Rémy (Eure), and Bosc-le-Hard (Seine-Maritime), each of which is known to have given its name to an aristocratic Norman family in England. The name was taken by the Normans from England to Ireland, where it was also adopted to Anglicize Irish Ó Buadhaigh (see Bogue ).
English: variant of Bush , influenced by Old French bois in 1 above, or else a translation of this term.
Americanized form of French Bois .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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