When John Wragg was born about 1658, in North Wingfield, Derbyshire, England, his father, George Wragg, was 42 and his mother, Elizabeth Wragg, was 30. He died in May 1691, in Derbyshire, England, at the age of 34, and was buried in Derbyshire, England.
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The Glorious Revolution brought the downfall of Catholic King James II and the reign of his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange.
English (West Yorkshire and Derbyshire):
from the Old Norse (Old Danish) personal name Wraghi, of uncertain origin and meaning.
variant of Ragge, from Middle English ragge ‘scrap of cloth, flap (of a garment), rag’, perhaps for someone who wore tattered clothing or clothes ornamented with strips of fabric. Alternatively, ragge might have been a shortened form of Middle English ragged ‘tattered, shaggy’. Perhaps occasionally a habitational name from Rag Field in Wonersh (Surrey). The placename probably derives from Middle English ragge ‘moss, lichen’ (Old English ragge, a side-form of ragu).
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