Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Pike was born in 1778, in Swafield, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, her father, Peter Pike, was 30 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Thaxter, was 26. She married Edmund Holmes on 22 April 1793, in Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 16 July 1853, in Knapton, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 75.
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- Mary Holmes in household of Edmund Holmes, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Mary Pike, "England, Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941"
- Mary Holmes in household of Edmund Holmes, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
English: nickname, perhaps for a fisherman whose physique resembled that of a pike. One Londoner so named in 1292 was a fishmonger.
English: metonymic occupational name for a user of a pointed tool, perhaps a laborer or military pikeman, from Middle English pike ‘pike, pickaxe, pitchfork’. Compare Pick .
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pic (Old English Pica, Old Norse Pík), of uncertain origin but perhaps from one of the words mentioned above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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