When William Chinnock was born on 21 August 1790, in Ditcheat, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Chinnock, was 32 and his mother, Ann Sims, was 29. He died on 4 October 1821, in Ditcheat, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 31.
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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.
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The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
English (West Country): habitational name from East or West Chinnock in Somerset, early recorded as Cinioch. The name is of uncertain origin; according to Mills, it may from a derivative of Old English cinu ‘deep valley’, or possibly from an old hill name of Celtic origin.
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