Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Cross was born on 17 December 1799, in Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Cross, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Arnold, was 29. She married John Meaden on 7 September 1835, in Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died in 1848, in Somerset, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 49.
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- Mary in entry for George Meaden, "England, Somerset, Church Records, 1501-1999"
- Mary in entry for Emma Meaden, "England, Somerset, Church Records, 1501-1999"
- Mary in entry for John Meadon, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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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: topographic name for someone who lived near a cross, such as one set up by the roadside or in a marketplace, from Middle English cros (Old English cros and Old Norse kross, ultimately from Latin crux, crucem). It is commonly Latinized in medieval records as ad crucem and de Cruce but examples of this can just as well belong to the synonymous but less common name Crouch . In a few cases the surname may have been given originally to someone who lived by a crossroads, but this sense of the word seems to have been a comparatively late development. In other cases, the surname (and its European cognates; see 3 below) may have denoted someone who carried the cross in processions of the Christian Church, but in English at least the usual word for this sense was Crozier .
Irish: shortened form of McCrossen .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cross’ or ‘the cross’, such as French Lacroix , German Kreutz , and Slovenian and Croatian Križ (see Kriz ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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