Brief Life History of William
When William Mee was born about 1767, in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Richard Mee, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Briggs, was 34. He married Elizabeth Smith on 26 February 1788, in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died about 1852, in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 87.
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- William Mee, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- William Mee, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- William Mee, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
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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.
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 Middle English mee, meie, mie (Old French mege, mie) ‘physician’. Compare the synonymous Mayer and Myer .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Miadhaigh ‘descendant of Miadhach’, a personal name meaning ‘honorable’. This name was also adopted for various other Irish names, e.g. Meehan , and also in Ulster for McNamee .
French (Mée): habitational name from any of the places called (Le) Mée in Mayenne, Eure-et-Loir, and Seine-et-Marne, derived from Old French me(i)s ‘farmstead’ (from Latin mansus). This surname is rare in France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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