Ann Wild
24 August 1743–
Owslebury, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
The Life Summary of Ann
When Ann Wild was christened on 24 August 1743, in Owslebury, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Wild, was 30 and her mother, Mary Gidge, was 29. She had at least 1 daughter with Richard Sims.
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Family Time Line
Richard Sims
1734–
Ann Wild
1743–
Sarah Sims
1766–
Spouse and Children
Parents and Siblings
1713–1772Male
1714–1770Female
Siblings
(8)
1738–Male
1740–Male
1743–Female
1745–Male
1747–1748Male
+3 More Children
World Events (5)
1801 · The Act of Union
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
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
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 wilde ‘wild, violent’ (Old English wilde), hence a nickname for a man of violent and undisciplined character, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of overgrown uncultivated land (from Middle English wilde (noun) ‘wild place, wasteland’).English: variant of Wile , with excrescent -d.German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): cognate of 1 above, from Middle High German wilde, wilt, German wild ‘wild’, also used in the sense ‘strange, foreign’, and therefore in some cases a nickname for an incomer.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Wilde
Wildt
Wile
Wilds
Wilt
Wilderman
Wilder
Wylde
Wildermuth
Sources (1)
- Ann in entry for Sarah Sims, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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