Brief Life History of William
When William Spillet was christened on 27 October 1793, in Throwley, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Spillet, was 40 and his mother, Tomasine Keeler, was 42. He died on 28 February 1810, in Ospringe, Kent, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 16, and was buried in Ospringe, Kent, England.
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- William Spillet, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- William Spillett, "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991"
- William Spillet, "England, Kent, Canterbury Parish Registers, 1538-1986"
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World Events (2)
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.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English spiler(e), speler(e) (Old English spilere) ‘player of games, jester’, perhaps also meaning ‘master of the revels’.
English: perhaps an occupational name from an unrecorded Middle English spiler, speler ‘maker of spills’, a derivative of Middle English spile, spele ‘fragment of wood, splinter’. A spill, in this sense, was a splinter of wood or small piece of paper, used to light a candle or a fire.
English: occasionally perhaps a nickname from Middle English spiller ‘one who causes ruin’, hence a destructive or wasteful person, such as William Spillbrede ‘spoil (or waste) bread’ (13th century). However, none of these phrasal names seem to have survived as a surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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