Brief Life History of William
William Crispin was born about 1695, in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom as the son of William Crispin and Susanna. He had at least 1 daughter.
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- William Crispin, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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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.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Pedro, Alicia, Fernando, Manuel, Rafael, Adolfo, Alfredo, Ana, Areli, Candita. French Adrien, Andre, Eugenie, Francoise.
English; Spanish (Crispín): from the personal name Middle English Crispin, Spanish Crispín, from Latin Crispinus, derived from crispus ‘curly-haired’ (see Crisp ). This name was especially popular in France in the early Middle Ages, having been borne by a Christian saint who was martyred at Soissons in AD c. 285 along with a companion, Crispinianus (whose name is a further derivative of the same word). Compare Crespin and 3 below.
English (of Norman origin): from Old French and Middle English crespin, crispin ‘curly-haired’, also found as Crepin; see Crippin . It is difficult to tell this apart from the personal name in 1 above. According to Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury (1070–1089), the Norman Gilbert Crispin was the first man to receive this nickname, and two of his sons adopted it as their surname. His grandson Gilbert Crispin became abbot of Westminster in 1085. Members of the Norman family were said to have inherited a shock of hair that stood up stiffly like a bristly pine, as though the name derived from Latin crispus pinus, but this derivation is a medieval invention.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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