When Mary Cass was born in 1727, her father, Abraham Cass, was 38 and her mother, Mary Mattock, was 29.
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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.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
English: from the Middle English female personal name Casse, a pet form of Cassandra. This was the name of an ill-fated Trojan prophetess of classical legend, condemned to foretell the future but never be believed; her story was well known and widely popular in medieval England. The name is of uncertain, possibly non-Greek, origin.
Irish (Kilkenny and Laois): from Ó Cais ‘descendant of the curly-haired one’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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