When John Smedley was born from 1665 to 1685, in Morley, Derbyshire, England, his father, Samuel Smedley, was 28 and his mother, Mary Grundy, was 26. He married Sarah Brown on 7 April 1702, in Crich, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Morley, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom in 1710. He died on 2 March 1748, in Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, England, and was buried in Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, England.
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The Glorious Revolution brought the downfall of Catholic King James II and the reign of his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange.
The South Sea Bubble Bill was passed by the House of Lords in 1720. This allowed the South Sea company to monopolize trade with South America. The company underwrote the English National Debt which promised 5% interest from the government. As shares rose exponentially, many companies were created and many fortunes were made. The stocks crashed and many people lost their money which caused them to become destitute overnight and suicide was common. Robert Walpole took charge of the South Sea Bubble Financial Crisis by dividing the national debt between the Bank of England, the Treasury, and the Sinking Fund.
English (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, and Lancashire): habitational name, mostly from Smithley in Wombwell (Yorkshire) but also from Smedley (Lancashire). The placenames probably mean ‘wood or woodland clearing of the smiths’, from Old English smitha, genitive plural form of smith ‘smith’, + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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