Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Bryant was christened on 1 September 1775, in Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Bryant, was 45 and her mother, Ann Foulks, was 45. She married William Finkell on 10 October 1797. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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- Mary Briant, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Mary Briant, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Mary Brian in entry for Charlotte Brian, "England, Cambridgeshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1538-1983"
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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.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Celtic personal name Brian (from brigo- ‘high’ + the suffix -ant-), with excrescent -t. Breton bearers of this name were among the Normans who invaded England in 1066. They went on to settle in Ireland in the 12th century, where the name mingled with the native Irish form Briain (see O'Brien ). The latter had also been borrowed, as Brján, by the Vikings, who introduced it independently into northwestern England before the Norman Conquest.
Breton: very rare variant of Briant (see Briand ) and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
History: The American poet William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) came of a New England family, being descended from Stephen Bryant, who had settled in Plymouth Colony in 1632.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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