When John Broderick was born on 7 May 1729, in St Clement Danes, City of Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Broderick, was 25 and his mother, Mary Robbins, was 33. He married Mary Fielding on 27 July 1756, in St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter.
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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.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Connor, Kieran, Kilian, Malachy, Siobhan.
Irish: Anglicized form adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic Ó Bruadair ‘descendant of Bruadar’, from the Old Norse personal name Bróthir.
English (northern): habitational name from an unidentified place near Reeth in upper Swaledale (North Yorkshire), perhaps named from Middle English brad (Old English brād) ‘broad’ + northern Middle English rigg (Old English hrycg) ‘ridge of land’. Alternatively, perhaps a nickname with the same etymology, denoting someone with a broad back.
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