Brief Life History of William
When William Faulkner was born about 1787, in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Henry Faulkner, was 37 and his mother, Mary Pointer, was 33. He married Sarah Tearle on 3 September 1809, in Astwick, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 1 November 1850, in his hometown, at the age of 64, and was buried in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Wm Falkner, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Wm. Faulkener, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- William Faulkner, "Find a Grave Index"
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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: from Middle English fauconer, fauk(e)ner, falconer ‘falconer’ (Old French fau(l)connier), an occupational name for someone who kept and trained falcons (a common feudal service). Falconry was a tremendously popular sport among the aristocracy in medieval Europe, and most great houses had their falconers. The surname could also have arisen as a metonymic occupational name for someone who operated the siege gun known as a falcon.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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