When Mary Saint was born about 1781, in Whitburn, Durham, England, United Kingdom, her father, Cuthbert Saint, was 42 and her mother, Elinor Brewhouse, was 39. She married John Thompson on 27 July 1807, in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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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 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.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Cyr, Remy.
English and French: nickname for a particularly pious individual, from Old French and Middle English saint(e), seint(e) ‘holy’ (from Latin sanctus ‘blameless, holy’). The vocabulary word was occasionally used in the Middle Ages as a personal name and this may have given rise to some instances of the surname.
English: perhaps a nickname for someone who wore, made, or sold girdles, from Middle English ceint, seint, saint ‘girdle’ (Old French ceint, Latin cinctum). Compare Center .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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