When Alice Titcomb was born in 1771, in Aldbourne, Wiltshire, England, her father, Ephraim Coplin, was 30 and her mother, Jane Collins, was 31. She married William Titcomb on 12 December 1792, in Aldbourne, Wiltshire, England. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1831, in Aldbourne, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 60, and was buried in Aldbourne, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom.
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"On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the ""shot heard around the world"" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England."
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English (Wiltshire and Berkshire): variant of Titcombe .
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