When Mary Cole was born in 1782, in Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Wheeler, was 22 and her mother, Frances Coles, was 35. She married Stephen Huntley on 29 April 1804, in Burbage, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Burbage, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. She died in 1866, in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 84.
Do you know Mary? Do you have a story about her that you would like to share? Sign In or Create a FREE Account
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.
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.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
English: usually from the Middle English and Old French personal name Col(e), Coll(e), Coul(e), a pet form of Nicol (see Nichol and Nicholas ), a common personal name from the mid 13th century onward. English families with this name migrated to Scotland and to Ulster (especially Fermanagh).
English: occasionally perhaps from a different (early) Middle English personal name Col, of native English or Scandinavian origin. Old English Cola was originally a nickname from Old English col ‘coal’ in the sense ‘coal-black (of hair), swarthy’ and is the probable source of most of the examples in Domesday Book. In the northern and eastern counties of England settled by Vikings in the 10th and 11th centuries, alternative sources are Old Norse Kolr and Koli (either from a nickname ‘the swarthy one’ or a short form of names in Kol-), and Old Norse Kollr (from a nickname, perhaps ‘the bald one’).
English: nickname for someone with swarthy skin or black hair, from Middle English col, coul(e) ‘charcoal, coal’ (Old English col).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesFixing the Stagg Family Tree My grandmother was named Veda Stagg Miller. Her father was David Stagg and her mother was Jane “Jennie” Goodman Stagg. In the past I spent so much of my time researchi …
As a nonprofit, we offer free help to those looking to learn the details of their family story.