Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Bowler was born before 1 September 1724, in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Bowler, was 63 and his mother, Margaret Bagnall, was 72.
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- Thomas Bowler, "England, Leicestershire Parish Registers, 1533-1991"
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World Events (4)
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 (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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