Brief Life History of William F
When William F Sones was born about 1883, in Halesworth, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Sones, was 30 and his mother, Alice Forster, was 24. He had at least 1 son with Sarah A Sones.
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Sources (5)
- William Soames in household of William Soames, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Legacy NFS Source: William F. Sones - Government record: Census record: birth-name: William F. Sones
- William F Sones, "England and Wales National Register, 1939"
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World Events (8)
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
1904 · The Entente Cordiale
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
1914
Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
Name Meaning
English (Suffolk):
perhaps an altered form of Soames; see Somes .
variant of Soane, with post-medieval excrescent -s (see Son ). The -o- in Middle English and early modern English son(e) is a conventional spelling of /u/ before an n. This /u/ became /ʌ/ in Standard English, hence the current pronunciation of Son. If /u/ was lengthened it became /o:/ in Middle English, and then /u:/ in modern English, hence the occasional spelling Soon. In some speakers' dialects, however, it seems that Middle English /u/ may have been lowered to /ɔ/ and lengthened to /ɔ:/, becoming modern English /əu/ represented in the spelling Soane. At any rate, Soon and Soane (also Sone) appear together in the same counties and are presumably alternative pronunciations of the same name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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