Peggy Mortimer

Female26 May 1928–2010

Brief Life History of Peggy

When Peggy Mortimer was born on 26 May 1928, in Halstead, Essex, England, United Kingdom, her father, Alfred Edward Mortimer, was 30 and her mother, Beatrice Ada Edgecombe, was 27. She died in 2010, in Channel Islands, at the age of 82.

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Family Time Line

Alfred Edward Mortimer
1898–1962
Beatrice Ada Edgecombe
1901–
Peggy Mortimer
1928–2010

Sources (1)

  • Peggy Mortimer, "England, Essex Parish Registers, 1538-1997"

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Siblings (1)

World Events (8)

1939 · Britain Enters World War II

Age 11

Britain entered the Second World War as war was declared on Germany on September 3, 1939. World War II came to an end after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Less than a week later, the Japanese surrendered and the war officially ended on August 15, 1945.

1940

Age 12

Winston Churchill becomes prime minister. British fighter pilots repel German air attacks in the Battle of Britain. London and other cities badly damaged in German bombing raids.

1953

Age 25

Queen Elizabeth II crowned at a coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey in London.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Mortemer in Seine-Maritime, France, so called from Old French mort(e) ‘dead’ + mer ‘sea’, probably referring to a stagnant pond or drained swamp.

Irish (of Norman origin): the Norman surname in sense 1 above was taken to Ireland from England in the medieval period, where it has also been adopted by bearers of the Gaelic surnames Mac Muircheartaigh and ÓMuircheartaigh, commonly Anglicized as McMurty and Mortagh. Compare McMurdo .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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