Brief Life History of Cornelius
When Cornelius Walden was born in 1814, in Ruardean, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Walden, was 23 and his mother, Mary Smart, was 21. He married Maria Brookshaw in 1835, in Ruardean Hill, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and East Dean, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1881. He died in 1870, in Westbury, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 56.
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- Corneilius Walden, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Cornelius Walding, "England and Wales, Death Registration Index 1837-2007"
- Cornelius Walding in entry for Julia Williams, "Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007"
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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.
1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Kings Walden and Saint Pauls Walden (Hertfordshire), Saffron Waldon (Essex), Waldon in Milton Damerel (Devon), and Walden (North Yorkshire). The placenames derives from Old English walh ‘foreigner, Briton, serf’ (genitive plural wala) + denu ‘valley’.
German: patronymic from Wald 3.
Americanized form of Norwegian Wolden or Volden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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