Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Newington was born about 1763, in Arundel, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thos. Newington, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth Ewens, was 35. He married Mary Irish on 31 July 1789, in Yapton, Sussex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He died in April 1843, in Westhampnett, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 81, and was buried in Climping, Sussex, England, United Kingdom.
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- Thomas Newington, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Thomas Norvington, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Thomas Newington, "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007"
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1770 · Boston Tea Party
Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
1775 · The Shot Heard Around the World
On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the "shot heard around the world" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England.
1787 · English Convicts Sail to Australia
The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
Name Meaning
1 English: locative name from Newington next Hythe (Kent), which is recorded as Niwan tune in about 1100, Newington by Sittingbourne (Kent), or from one or more of the many other places of this name, such as Newington (Surrey), Newington Bagpath (Gloucs), Newington and North and South Newington (all Oxon), and Long and North Newnton (Wilts). The place-names derive from Old English nīwe ‘new’ (oblique case nīwan) + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’; ( æt þǣm) nīwan tūn ‘(at the) new farmstead’.
2 English: locative name from Newenden (Kent), which is recorded as Neuuenden in 1072. The place name derives from Old English nīwe ‘new’ (oblique case nīwan) + denn ‘woodland pasture’; ( æt þǣm) nīwan denn ‘(at the) new woodland pasture’.
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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