Eccles
1656–28 July 1700 (Age 44)
Malone, County Antrim, Ireland
The Life Summary of Eccles
When Eccles was born in 1656, in Malone, County Antrim, Ireland, her father, John Eccles, was 27 and her mother, Jane, was 22. She married Moses Jones in 1675, in Ireland. She died on 28 July 1700, in her hometown, at the age of 44.
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Family Time Line
Moses Jones
1652–
Eccles
1656–1700
Marriage: 1675
Spouse and Children
1652–Male
1656–1700Female
Marriage
1675Ireland
Parents and Siblings
1630–1705Male
1634–Female
Siblings
(6)
1653–1701Female
1656–1700Female
1658–Female
1662–1700Female
1664–1727Male
+1 More Child
World Events (3)
1672
Age 16
1672
Age 16
Over 6,000 Irish boys and women sold as slaves since England gained control of Jamaica.
1690
Age 34
1690
Age 34
William of Orange (William III) lands at Carrickfergus and defeats James II at Battle of the Boyne.
1692
Age 36
1692
Age 36
Exclusion of Catholics from Parliament and all professions.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Eccles in Lancashire, or possibly from any of several other places so named in Kent, Norfolk, Berwickshire, and Dumfriesshire, from British eglēs ‘Romano-British Christian church’ (from Latin ecclesia, Greek ekklēsia ‘gathering, assembly’). Such places would have been the sites of notable pre-Anglo-Saxon churches or Christian places of communal worship.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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