When John Clement was born in 1783, in Eddington, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Henry Clement, was 35 and his mother, Ann Hopkins, was 32. He married Hannah White on 5 December 1809, in Chieveley, Berkshire, England. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in New Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. He died on 19 February 1849, in Eddington, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 66, and was buried in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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.
"Former slave Olaudah Equiano settled in London and published his autobiography titled ""The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano."" Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity. His autobiography is one of the oldest published works by an African-American writer."
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.
Some characteristic forenames: French Pierre, Alcide, Alphonse, Andre, Marcel, Armand, Cecile, Christophe, Gaston, Olivier, Aime.
English, Catalan, German, Flemish, and Dutch; French and Walloon (Clément): from the Latin personal name Clemens meaning ‘merciful’ (genitive Clementis). This achieved popularity firstly through having been borne by an early Christian saint who was a disciple of Saint Paul, and later because it was selected as a symbolic name by a number of early popes. There has also been some confusion with the personal name Clemence (from Latin Clementia, meaning ‘mercy’, an abstract noun derived from the adjective; in part a masculine name from Latin Clementius, a later derivative of Clemens). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, especially Italian Clemente , and also their derivatives.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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