Brief Life History of Mary
Mary Lever was born on 18 April 1917, in Bolton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. She married Wilfred Haslam on 2 May 1940. She died on 16 December 1978, in Garstang, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 61.
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1918
WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
1921 · British Unemployment Reaches Post-War High
British unemployment reached a post-war high in July 1921 of 2.5 million people.
1939 · Britain Enters World War II
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.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): nickname for a fleet-footed or timid person, from Old French levre ‘hare’ (from Latin lepus, genitive leporis). It may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a hunter of hares.
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a place thickly grown with rushes, from Old English lǣfer ‘rush, reed, iris’. Compare Laver . Great and Little Lever in Greater Manchester are named with this word (in a collective sense), so the surname may also be a habitational name from these places.
Dutch and North German: from the medieval personal names Lever, a variant of Liever (see Lieber ), and Levert, a variant of Lievert (see Liebhart ). This surname is very rare in Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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