When William Shaw Middlefell was born in 1885, in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Middlefell, was 36 and his mother, Elizabeth Shaw, was 32. He married Margaret Anne Edwards in 1909, in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Bolton le Moors St Peter, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He died in 1957, in Bolton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 72.
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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.
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The 7th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers was active from 1908-1967. They were another volunteer unit for Britian's Territorial Army. During WWI they fought on the Western Front and during WWII they arrived in Liverpool just in time for the Liverpool Blitz.
Probably the most successful of all the Old French names of Germanic origin that were introduced to England by the Normans. It is derived from Germanic wil ‘will, desire’ + helm ‘helmet, protection’. The fact that it was borne by the Conqueror himself does not seem to have inhibited its favour with the ‘conquered’ population: in the first century after the Conquest it was the commonest male name of all, and not only among the Normans. In the later Middle Ages it was overtaken by John , but continued to run second to that name until the 20th century, when the picture became more fragmented.
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