Brief Life History of Alice
When Alice Woods was born on 27 January 1771, in Lathom St James, Lancashire, England, her father, John Woods, was 36 and her mother, Margaret Bond, was 34. She married John Chadwick on 7 July 1794, in Halsall, Lancashire, England. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Halsall, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. She died on 14 July 1846, in Melling, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 75.
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- Alice Chadwick in household of John Chadwick, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Alice Woods, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Alice Woods & John Chadwick Marriage (1794), "England, Lancashire, Parish Registers 1538-1910"
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1775 · The Shot Heard Around the World
On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the "shot heard around the world" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England.
1787 · English Convicts Sail to Australia
The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
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.
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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