When Thomas Ordoyno was born in 1768, in Oundle, Northamptonshire, England, his father, Garrett Ordoyno, was 45 and his mother, Ann Sambrooke, was 24. He married Ann Brown on 19 June 1792, in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He died about 31 October 1815, in Coddington, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 47, and was buried in Coddington, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.
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Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
"On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the ""shot heard around the world"" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England."
The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
Some characteristic forenames: French Lucien, Emile, Eulice, Raoul, Remy.
Altered form, under the French influence in LA, of Spanish Ordóñez (see Ordonez ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesOrdoyno, Thomas ''Flora Nottinghamiensis'', 1807 and ''By paths of Nottinghamshire History''. p n 1807 Mr. Thomas Ordoyno, nurseryman and seeds-man of Newark, published his ‘Flora Nottinghamiensis; …
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