Brief Life History of Horace Joseph
When Horace Joseph Piper was born on 17 January 1902, in Gillingham, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, Horace William Piper, was 35 and his mother, Beatrice Excell, was 23. He married Ada May Bedingfield on 12 October 1946, in Gillingham, Kent, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Dover, Kent, England, United Kingdom in 1939. He died on 2 April 1957, in Gillingham, Kent, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 55.
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- Horace J Piper in household of Horace W Piper, "England and Wales Census, 1911"
- Horace J Piper, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
- Horace Joseph Piper, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1904 · The Entente Cordiale
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
1908
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1918
WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
Name Meaning
English (mainly southern): occupational name for a player on the pipes, Middle English pipere, sometimes a paid town musician.
English: sometimes a variant of Peppard .
English: perhaps occasionally an occupational name from late Middle English piper ‘repairer or layer of pipes; plumber’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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