Brief Life History of Jessie Mary
When Jessie Mary Long was born on 10 November 1898, in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Charles William Long, was 32 and her mother, Lizzy Newman Arber, was 33. She married Arthur Donald Woollard in 1925, in Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom. She died in 1958, in March, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 60.
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- Jessie Long in household of Charles Long, "England and Wales Census, 1911"
- Long, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
- Jessie Mary Long in household of Chas Wm Long, "England and Wales Census, 1901"
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1904 · The Entente Cordiale
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
1908
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1914
Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
Name Meaning
English and French: nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long, tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus). Compare Dulong and Lelong .
Irish (Ulster and Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan ).
German: variant of Lang ‘long’ and, in North America, also an altered form (translation into English) of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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