When Elijah Acory was born in 1823, in Warminster, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Acory, was 31 and his mother, Mary Adlam, was 35. He married Ann Cundick on 1 September 1845, in Southampton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 25 April 1872, in Aberystruth, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 49.
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Sparked by a depression that was going through Wales the previous three years, the Merthyr uprisings were carried out by workers that were in debt. In the process, twenty-four people were killed and twenty-six were arrested. Troops were brought in to stop the protestors.
The Rebecca Riots were a group of protests in west Wales from 1839-1843. The people involved were mostly poor farmers, primarily men dressed as women. The group was called “Rebecca and her daughters”, a title believed to have come the book of Genesis. They mostly fought against the toll-gates. There is only record of one death during the riots: a young Sarah Williams had been warned that the rioters were coming, but upon refusing to leave, was killed.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Emery , a cognate of 3 below.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Daumeray in Maine-et-Loire, France, introduced to England by the Normans. The initial D- was often regarded as a preposition and the name wrongly divided as De Aumari. This false preposition was later lost, hence Amori, Amory. The name was probably then confused with Amery .
French: from the Old French personal name Amauri, from ancient Germanic Amalric, composed of the elements Amal (a dynastic name among the Goths) + rīk ‘realm, power’.
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