Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane Bowler was born about 1792, in Sheepshed, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Bowler, was 43 and her mother, Elizabeth Kirk, was 40. She married Thomas Hind on 24 December 1809, in Sheepshed, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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- Jane Bowler, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Jane Bowler, "England, Leicestershire Parish Registers, 1533-1991"
- Jane Hind in entry for James Hind, "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977"
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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 (mainly East Midlands): occupational name from an unrecorded Middle English word boler ‘worker at a bole or lead-mining site’ (Middle English bole ‘bowl’), here denoting a round cavity on top of a high hill, where lead was smelted.
English: occupational name from Middle English bollere, boler, bolour, bulour ‘maker or seller of bowls, dishes, or cups’ (from Old English bolla ‘bowl, drinking vessel’ + the agent suffix -er, and Old French bole, bule ‘bowl’). Medieval bowls were made of wood as well as of earthenware.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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