Brief Life History of Abraham Webster
When Abraham Webster Hall was born in 1870, in Waterfall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Daniel Hall, was 44 and his mother, Mary Webster, was 35. He married Annie Jags on 23 January 1900, in Rocester, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891 and Rocester, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901.
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- Abraham Webster Hall in household of Daniel Hall, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
- Abram Webster Hall, "England, Staffordshire, Church Records, 1538-1944"
- Abraham Webster Hall in household of Daniel Hall, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
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1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
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.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames, bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.
Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀, see He 1 and 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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