When William Asfordby was born in 1575, in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England, his father, Edward Ashfordby, was 40 and his mother, Katherine Sandon, was 37. He married Eleanor Newcomen on 20 April 1597, in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 8 daughters. He died in May 1623, in Saltfleetby St Peter, Lincolnshire, England, at the age of 48, and was buried in Saltfleetby St Clement, Lincolnshire, England.
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England established its first colony in North America in 1585 as a way to generate additional wealth. The colony was named Virginia, after the virgin Queen Elizabeth I.
Elizabeth I signed the death warrant for Mary, Queen of Scots, on February 1, 1587, as she was found guilty of plotting to assasinate Elizabeth. Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England on February 8, 1587.
The Honourable East India Company, a British joint-stock company, was established in 1600 for trade in the Indian Ocean region. At its height, the British East India Company had a private army which was twice the size of the British Army, ruled large sections of India, and revenues in the millions.
Probably the most successful of all the Old French names of Germanic origin that were introduced to England by the Normans. It is derived from Germanic wil ‘will, desire’ + helm ‘helmet, protection’. The fact that it was borne by the Conqueror himself does not seem to have inhibited its favour with the ‘conquered’ population: in the first century after the Conquest it was the commonest male name of all, and not only among the Normans. In the later Middle Ages it was overtaken by John , but continued to run second to that name until the 20th century, when the picture became more fragmented.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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