When George Helm was born about 1806, in Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Helm, was 23 and his mother, Agnes Crawford, was 23. He married Mary Ann Oliver on 3 June 1830, in Sutherland, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 29 March 1878, in Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 73.
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The Tron riot was a riot which occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland on New Year's Eve. A group of young men attacked and robbed wealthier passers-by. One police officer was killed in the riot. Though the total count of participants is unknown, sixty-eight youths were arrested, with five sentenced to death for their actions during the riot.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
English (Lancashire): from Old English helm ‘protection, covering’ (in later northern English dialects, ‘cattle shelter, barn’). The name may be topographic, for someone who lived by or worked at a barn, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Helme in Meltham (Yorkshire).
English: variant of Elm with prosthetic H-.
German, and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a maker of helmets, from Middle High German, Middle Dutch helm.
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