When Harry Pamer Beckett was born on 3 March 1871, in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edwin Walter Beckett, was 30 and his mother, Eliza Ann Palmer, was 22. He married Clara Ellen Lingard on 15 July 1894, in Old Clee, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871 and Great Grimsby St Mary and St James, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881. He died on 1 February 1961, in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 89.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
English and Irish (of Norman origin): nickname from Old French, Middle English beket ‘small beak’ (a diminutive of Old French bec ‘beak or mouth’), perhaps with reference to someone with a small beak-like mouth or a prominent nose (compare Beck 4), though the Middle English word appears to have had a wide range of applications denoting ‘pointed objects’, including ‘corbel, kind of arrow, kind of bird’, and ‘kind of fish’. This surname is also found in Ireland, especially in Antrim.
English: habitational name from any of the places called Beckett in Berkshire and Devon. The former is named with Old English bēo ‘bee’ + cot ‘cottage, shelter’; the latter has as its first element the Old English personal name Bicca.
Altered form of Bequette , a surname of French origin.
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