When George James Long was born in 1870, in Burbage, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Jesse Long, was 44 and his mother, Elizabeth Spanswick, was 41. He had at least 2 sons and 4 daughters with Ellen Smith. He lived in Wandsworth Common, London, England, United Kingdom in 1901. He died about June 1905, in Wandsworth, London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 35.
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The Trial of Detective, also known as the Turf Fraud Scandal, was a scandal involving 3 senior Scotland Yard detectives. It was a scam involving bets made on horse races.
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
The Whitehall Mystery has some ties to Jack the Ripper, the victim was female and had been dismembered. The arms were found first; the headless torso to which they belonged was found a month later. The rest of the body was never discovered and the mystery was never solved.
English and French: nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long, tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus). Compare Dulong and Lelong .
Irish (Ulster and Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan ).
German: variant of Lang ‘long’ and, in North America, also an altered form (translation into English) of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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