Brief Life History of George Altham
When George Altham Simpson was born about 1882, in Waddington, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Simpson, was 36 and his mother, Margaret Anne Altham, was 34. He married Nellie Richards on 7 September 1909, in Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Grindleton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891.
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- George Altham Simpson in household of Margaret Altham, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- George A Simpson, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- George Altham Pimpson, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
1901 · East Lancashire Royal Engineers
The East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a group of volunteers in a unit of Britian's Royal Engineers. They were started in Manchester in 1901. They fought on the western front during WWI and were part of the Dunkirk Evacuation during WWII.
1914
Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m), Sime (see Sim ) + -son.
English: occasionally a variant of Sumsion with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant, a dialect feature of southwestern England.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson, all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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