When Elizabeth Ann Wild was born in 1859, in Middleton by Oldham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Wild, was 31 and her mother, Ann Witson, was 24. She married John Butterworth in 1881. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Wuerdle and Wardle, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Oldham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1911.
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The Lancashire Rifle Volunteers started in the eighteenth century. Those that fought in the militia were selected by ballot. They were formed because of threat due to the Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War.
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The East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a group of volunteers in a unit of Britian's Royal Engineers. They were started in Manchester in 1901. They fought on the western front during WWI and were part of the Dunkirk Evacuation during WWII.
English: from Middle English wilde ‘wild, violent’ (Old English wilde), hence a nickname for a man of violent and undisciplined character, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of overgrown uncultivated land (from Middle English wilde (noun) ‘wild place, wasteland’).
English: variant of Wile , with excrescent -d.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): cognate of 1 above, from Middle High German wilde, wilt, German wild ‘wild’, also used in the sense ‘strange, foreign’, and therefore in some cases a nickname for an incomer.
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