Brief Life History of William
When William Pope was born in 1807, in Rottingdean, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Pope II, was 32 and his mother, Ann Field Hamper, was 21. He married Mary Ann Paul on 1 June 1851, in Rottingdean, Sussex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. He died on 31 March 1882, in Lewes, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 75.
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- William Pope, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
- William Pope, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- William Pope, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
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1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
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.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English pope (derived via Old English from Late Latin papa ‘bishop, pope’, from Greek pappas ‘father’, in origin a nursery word.) In the early Christian Church, the Latin term was at first used as a title of respect for male clergy of every rank, but in the Western Church it gradually came to be restricted to bishops, and then only to the bishop of Rome; in the Eastern Church it continued to be used of all priests (see Popov , Papas ). The nickname would have been used for a vain or pompous man, or for someone who had played the part of the pope in a pageant or play. The surname is also present in Ireland and Scotland.
North German: variant of Poppe .
German: translation of Pabst .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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