Brief Life History of Elijah
When Elijah Giles was born on 10 April 1792, in Wield, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Giles, was 26 and his mother, Mary Windebank, was 20. He married Charlotte White on 8 July 1820, in Whitchurch, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 13 December 1866, in Wield, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 74, and was buried in Wield, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Elijah Giles, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- William Giles, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Elijah Giles, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
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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.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from a medieval personal name, Middle English Giles or Gile, a borrowing from Old French Gil(l)e(s). This is from Latin Aegidius and this presumably from Greek aigidion ‘kid, young goat’ (alternatively, it could be a Late Latin formation from the Latin personal name Eggius + the suffix -idius). The personal name was widely used in France and the Low Countries, partly through veneration of Saint Gilles de Provence, supposedly a hermit of the 7th century near Arles; he was patron saint of cripples, hence the dedication of Saint Giles Cripplegate in London, though the personal name itself was less common in England than elsewhere in Europe. See also Gilles .
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Glaisne, a County Louth name based on glas ‘green, blue, gray’.
French: variant of Gilles , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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