When Augustinus Filmer was born about 1600, in East Sutton, Kent, England, his father, Edward Filmer, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth Argall, was 37. He died before 1629.
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The Honourable East India Company, a British joint-stock company, was established in 1600 for trade in the Indian Ocean region. At its height, the British East India Company had a private army which was twice the size of the British Army, ruled large sections of India, and revenues in the millions.
The Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower in search of religious freedom in the New World in September 1620. The Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, England, with 102 passengers, 40 of whom called themselves "Saints." After two stormy months at sea, the ship reached the New World. Nearly half of the group died during their first winter due to malnutrition and the harsh New England winter.
English: variant of Fillmore .
English: habitational name from Filmer Wood in Wichling, Kent.
North German and Dutch: unexplained.
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