When Frederick Beaumont was born in 1834, in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Beaumont, was 45 and his mother, Sarah Ann Hadgraft, was 46. He married Isabella Barwell before March 1859, in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Ipswich St Clement, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Suffolk, England, United Kingdom in 1891. He died in 1898, in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 64.
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Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Gilles, Gaetan, Honore, Jacques, Jean-Guy, Marcel.
English (of Norman origin) and French: habitational name from any of the five places in Normandy or several others elsewhere in France so named. The placename comes from Old French beu, bel ‘fair, lovely’ + mont ‘hill’. There are also places in England so named under Norman influence in Cumberland, Lancashire, and Essex, the last of which changed its name in the 12th century from Fulepet ‘foul pit’ to Bealmont ‘beautiful hill’; these may also have given rise to the surname. The surname is now widespread throughout England, but most common in Yorkshire. Compare Belmont .
History: Many English bearers of this surname are descended from Henry de Beaumont (died 1340), who came to England from France as a soldier, serving Kings Edward I, II, and III of England. He acquired the earldom of Buchan in Scotland by marriage. — Many American bearers of this surname are descendants of John Beaumont (1612–47), who came to North America from England in 1630. William Beaumont came from England to Cambridge MA in 1635 and subsequently moved to CT.
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