When Eliza Pierce was born on 10 July 1833, in Sussex, England, United Kingdom, her father, Stephen Pierce, was 39 and her mother, Charlotte Starley, was 36. She married George Lavell on 27 May 1855, in Virginia Water, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Bolney, Sussex, England, United Kingdom for about 8 years. She died in February 1875, in Chertsey, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 41, and was buried in Lyne, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
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The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
English, Welsh, and Irish: from the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Piers, Peres, Peris, an Old French nominative of Pierre or Per, the French form of Peter . Pierce is especially frequent in northwestern Wales and Lancashire, while Pearce is the more common spelling in the rest of England. In Ireland Pierce and Pearse represent a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Piarais ‘son of Piaras’, a Gaelicized form of Piers.
Americanized form of some similar-sounding Jewish surname.
History: Franklin Pierce (1804–69), 14th president of the US, was born in Hillsborough, NH, on the New England frontier. His English ancestor Thomas Pierce emigrated to Charlestown, MA, in 1633/34.
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