Brief Life History of Eliza
When Eliza Rice was born in 1835, in Worth, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, her father, George Rice, was 28 and her mother, Amey Lock, was 19. She married Richard Pennington on 10 July 1864, in Worth, Sussex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in London, England in 1901 and Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom in 1911.
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- Eliza Penington in household of Richard Penington, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Eliza Rice, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Eliza Rice, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1852 · First Public Lavatory Erected
George Jenning was the person that invented and gave us the public lavatory. It cost people a penny to use.
1868 · Abolition of Public Hangings at Newgate
On May 26, 1868 the Capital Punishment Act was put into action. This made it so that public hangings no longer existed at Newgate in London.
Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized pronunciation of one of the most common Welsh personal names, Rhys, from a form originally meaning ‘rash, impetuous’, also spelled Rys and Re(e)s. See also Reese , with which it is interchangeable as a result of different Anglicized forms of the Welsh vowel y, and also compare Preece and Price . Initial R- in Welsh is voiceless and often spelled Rh-, but in English R- is voiced as in the Anglicized surnames Rees and Rice. Welsh y is a short back vowel /ɪ/. In the medieval period the English approximation of this vowel was either /i/ or /e/, lengthened to /i:/ and /e:/. Subsequent sound changes in English produced the alternative pronunciations represented in Rees, Preece and Rice, Price. The name has also been established in Ireland from an early date.
English: either a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a thicket (Middle English ris, rice, ris, from Old English hrīs, Old Norse hrís), or a habitational name for someone who came from a place called with this word, such as Rise (East Yorkshire).
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English Rys(e) and Re(e)s which when without a preposition could derive from one or other of several Old French and Middle English words, including Anglo-Norman French ris ‘laughter, smile’, Middle English ris, res ‘stem, stalk’, in origin the same word as in 2 above, and Middle English ris, rise, rice, res, Old French ris, riz ‘rice’, perhaps a nickname for a rice dealer or a cook.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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