Brief Life History of Henry
When Henry Shelley or Sherly or Shirley was born on 27 February 1731, his father, Henry Shelley, was 20 and his mother, Mary Nash, was 22.
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- Henry Sherly, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Henry Sherly, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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World Events (3)
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1831 · Old London Bridge Opens
"The popular childhood rhyme ""London Bridge is Falling Down"" refers to the infamous overpass above the Thames River. By the 19th century the bridge had started to fall apart."
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Shelley (Essex, Suffolk, Yorkshire) or from Shelley Plain in Crawley (Sussex). The placenames all derive from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish (Laois): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Sealbhaigh ‘descendant of Sealbhach’, a byname from the adjective sealbhach ‘having possessions, wealthy’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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