Brief Life History of Hannah
When Hannah Ricks was christened on 18 August 1771, in Purton, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Richard Ricks, was 28 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Vines, was 28.
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- Hannah Reckes, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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1801 · The Act of Union
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.
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Rick , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. See also Rickson .
English: topographic name from Middle English rixe, rexe (Old English rixe, a West Saxon metathesized form of Old English risc, rysc ‘rush’) wash. The surname probably originally denoted someone who lived where rushes grew, or it may be a habitational name from a place so named, such as Rix (Devon).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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