When Robert Dacres was born about 1567, in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England, his father, George Dacres, was 35 and his mother, Lady Elizabeth Carew, was 30.
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A State Lottery was recorded in 1569. The tickets were sold at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
The Royal Exchange was organized in January 1571 by Sir Thomas Gresham. Gresham is known as the father of English banking.
England established its first colony in North America in 1585 as a way to generate additional wealth. The colony was named Virginia, after the virgin Queen Elizabeth I.
English and Scottish: variant of Dacre, a habitational name from either of two places called Dacre in Cumberland or Yorkshire, with post-medieval excrescent -s. Both placenames are derived from a Celtic stream or river name.
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