Brief Life History of William
William Rylands was born in 1755, in Kendal, Westmorland, England. He married Agnes Morland in 1779, in Kendal, Westmorland, England. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters.
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- William Rylands in entry for Margaret Rylands, "England, Cumbria Parish Registers, 1538-1990"
- William Ryland in entry for Thomas Ryland, "England, Cumbria Parish Registers, 1538-1990"
- William Rylands in entry for Thomas Rylands, "England, Cumbria Parish Registers, 1538-1990"
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World Events (4)
1770 · Boston Tea Party
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 Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea.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.
1775 · The Shot Heard Around the World
"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."
1787 · English Convicts Sail to Australia
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.
Name Meaning
1 English: locative name mostly from a plural form of Ryland . Middle English ryelandes, -londes refers to the strips of arable where rye was grown within one of the large open fields that were typical of medieval communal farming; as a phrase it could be used to name an open field where rye predominated. This is the source of the Lancs surname, but elsewhere the original form may alternatively have been in the singular with final -s added later. Sometimes spelled Rylance.
2 English: locative name from Rylance in Cheshire, a lost place in Pownall Fee, recorded as Rylondis, about 1200, Ruylonds, 1337, Ruylond, 1349 in Place-Names of Cheshire . The place-name has the same meaning, ‘rye land(s)’, as in (1), with vacillation between singular and plural forms. Surnames from it are difficult to distinguish from Rylands or Rylance from other sources.
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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