Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Moss was born on 25 March 1725, in Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Charles Moss, was 26 and his mother, Jane Willis, was 26. He married Sarah Redhead on 22 March 1752, in Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter.
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- Thomas Moss, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Thomas Moss, "England, Berkshire, Parish Registers, 1515-1993"
- Thomas Moss, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
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World Events (4)
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.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English mos ‘moss, bog’ (Old English mos), for someone who lived at a boggy place, or a habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as Moss (Yorkshire), Mose in Quatford (Shropshire), and Moze (Essex).
English: variant of Moyse .
Irish (Ulster): adoption of the English name 1 by translation for Ó Maolmóna or Ó Maolmhóna ‘descendant of Maolmóna’, a personal name based on maol ‘servant, tonsured one, i.e. devotee’ + a second element assumed to be móin (genitive móna) ‘moorland, peat bog’, in local English ‘moss’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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