When Jane Trott was born on 2 February 1817, in North Petherton, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Trott, was 39 and her mother, Mary Ann Poole, was 39. She married John Bishop on 4 October 1840, in Bridgwater, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Bedminster, Somerset, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1861. She died in 1869, in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 52.
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Sparked by a depression that was going through Wales the previous three years, the Merthyr uprisings were carried out by workers that were in debt. In the process, twenty-four people were killed and twenty-six were arrested. Troops were brought in to stop the protestors.
English (Somerset and Devon): in southwestern England, usually a variant of Trout .
South German: metonymic variant of Trotter 2.
English (Somerset and Devon): nickname, either for one who moves quickly, at the pace of a trotting horse, from Middle English trot(te) (Old French trot) ‘trot’, perhaps given to a messenger (see Trotter , Trotman ); or occasionally perhaps from Middle English trot(te), trat(te) ‘old woman, hag’ (Anglo-Norman French trote).
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