Brief Life History of Nicholas
When Nicholas Street Sr was born in 1550, in Taunton, Somerset, England, his father, Richard Street, was 32 and his mother, Mary Boreley, was 32. He married Mary Newman about 1570, in Taunton, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. He died on 3 May 1610, in his hometown, at the age of 60, and was buried in Taunton, Somerset, England.
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- England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
- Warwickshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812
- Nich Streete in entry for Thos Streete, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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1558 · Act of Uniformity
The Act of Uniformity was passed by the Parliament of England and required all people to go to church once a week. The consequence of not attending church was a fine of 12 pence, which was a considerable amount for a poor person.
1569 · State Lottery
A State Lottery was recorded in 1569. The tickets were sold at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
1571 · The Royal Exchange is Organized
The Royal Exchange was organized in January 1571 by Sir Thomas Gresham. Gresham is known as the father of English banking.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English stret(e) ‘street, Roman road’ (Old English strǣt). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in the main street of a village or town or by a Roman road, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Street (Kent, Herefordshire, Somerset), Street on the Fosse (Somerset), Strete in Blackawton (Devon), Strete Raleigh in Whimple (Devon), or Streat (Sussex). In the Middle Ages the word at first denoted a Roman road but later also came to denote the main street in a town or village.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Strasser and a number of other surnames with similar meaning.
Americanized form of Jewish (from Morocco) Chetrit: perhaps from the Arabic verbal root shṭr ‘to become skillful, dexterous, astute’. The exact origin of the suffix –it is unclear.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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