Sally Cole

Brief Life History of Sally

When Sally Cole was born in 1817, her father, Henry Cole, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Tidy, was 21. She married Thomas Ashby on 2 July 1837, in Sevenoaks, Kent, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Deptford St Paul, Kent, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and St Paul's Cathedral, London, England, United Kingdom in 1861.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Ashby
1813–
Sally Cole
1817–
Marriage: 2 July 1837
Ellen Ashby
1837–
Ann Ashby
1839–
Mary Ashby
1841–
John Ashby
1844–
Betsy Ashby
1848–
Sarah Ashby
1849–1916
Wm Ashby
1856–

Sources (10)

  • Sarah Ashby, "England and Wales, Census, 1851"
  • Sally Cole, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • Sally Cole, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"

Spouse and Children

World Events (8)

1823

Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.

1831 · Old London Bridge Opens

"The popular childhood rhyme ""London Bridge is Falling Down"" refers to the infamous overpass above the Thames River. By the 19th century the bridge had started to fall apart."

1852 · First Public Lavatory Erected 

George Jenning was the person that invented and gave us the public lavatory. It cost people a penny to use. 

Name Meaning

English: usually from the Middle English and Old French personal name Col(e), Coll(e), Coul(e), a pet form of Nicol (see Nichol and Nicholas ), a common personal name from the mid 13th century onward. English families with this name migrated to Scotland and to Ulster (especially Fermanagh).

English: occasionally perhaps from a different (early) Middle English personal name Col, of native English or Scandinavian origin. Old English Cola was originally a nickname from Old English col ‘coal’ in the sense ‘coal-black (of hair), swarthy’ and is the probable source of most of the examples in Domesday Book. In the northern and eastern counties of England settled by Vikings in the 10th and 11th centuries, alternative sources are Old Norse Kolr and Koli (either from a nickname ‘the swarthy one’ or a short form of names in Kol-), and Old Norse Kollr (from a nickname, perhaps ‘the bald one’).

English: nickname for someone with swarthy skin or black hair, from Middle English col, coul(e) ‘charcoal, coal’ (Old English col).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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