Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Woods was born about 1729, in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Woods, was 26 and his mother, Ellen Woods, was 22. He married Ann Owens on 5 January 1754, in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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Sources (3)
- Thos Woods, "England, Cheshire, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1606-1900"
- Thos Woods, "England, Lancashire, Parish Registers 1538-1910"
- Thomas Woods, "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.
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: variant of Wood with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: adopted as a translation of Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’ (see Quill ), or in Ulster of Mac Con Coille ‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’, which has also been mistranslated Cox , as if formed with coileach ‘cock, rooster’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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