Brief Life History of Roy Bowman
Roy Bowman Andrews was born on 15 October 1911, in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. He married Amy Azubah Hancock in 1939, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. He lived in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom in 1939. He died in 1988, in Richmond, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 77.
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- Roy B Andrews, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- Roy B Andrews, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
- Roy Bowman Andrews, "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007"
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World Events (8)
1914
Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
1914 · Britain Enters the Great War
After Germany declared war Russia, Britain entered The Great War and declared war on Germany on August 4, 1914. The war ended on November 11, 1918, as Germany signed an armistice that brought fighting to a halt.
1939 · Britain Enters World War II
Britain entered the Second World War as war was declared on Germany on September 3, 1939. World War II came to an end after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Less than a week later, the Japanese surrendered and the war officially ended on August 15, 1945.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Andrew , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This is the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the Scottish and northern English form is Anderson . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Polish Andrzejewski , Slovenian Andrejčič, Serbian and Croatian Andrić (see Andric ), and Czech Ondráček (see Ondracek ).
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis or Irish Mac Aindriú, see McAndrew .
History: This was a common name among the early settlers in New England. Robert Andrews emigrated in 1635 from Norwich, England, to Ipswich, MA. Even before 1635, one Thomas Andrews is recorded as being established in Hingham. A certain William Andrews was a member of John Davenport's company, which sailed from Boston in 1638 to found the New Haven colony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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