When William James Dugdale was born on 20 September 1798, in Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Dugdale, was 23 and his mother, Hannah Cook, was 34. He married Esther Harwood on 3 January 1820, in Church Kirk, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and England, United Kingdom in 1891. He died on 31 August 1862, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Plains, New Shoreham, Washington, Rhode Island, United States.
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On January 9, 1811, the USS Revenge hits a reef off of Watch Hill, Rhode Island. The load the ship is carrying is handed off to other ships and the USS Revenge is tied down by tow ropes. It brakes free from the ropes and later sinks. In 2011 divers find what are believed to be the remains of the ship.
The Manchester Food Riots started on April 18, 1812, in Shudehill. The main focus was on the potato market. By 3pm, calvary and infantry soldiers began patrolling the streets and breaking up the crowds.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
English: habitational name, perhaps from Dugdale near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, now known as Dagdale, from the Old English personal name or byname Ducca + Old English dæl or Old Norse dalr ‘valley’, or possibly from an as yet unidentified place near Clithero in Lancashire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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