Brief Life History of William
When William Babington was born on 21 May 1756, in Portglenone, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, his father, Humphrey Babington, was 40 and his mother, Anna Dorothea Buttle, was 27. He married Martha Elizabeth Hough on 21 July 1787. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 29 April 1833, in London, England, at the age of 76, and was buried in Aldermanbury, London, England, United Kingdom.
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- William Dr "MD FRS FGS" Babington, "BillionGraves Index"
- Dr Babington in entry for Dr Richard Bright, "British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries"
- William Babington, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1770 · Boston Tea Party
Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
1775 · The Shot Heard Around the World
"On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the ""shot heard around the world"" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England."
1787 · English Convicts Sail to Australia
The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name for someone from Babington in Somerset or Great or Little Bavington in Northumberland, which is recorded as Babington until the early 18th century. Both are named with the Old English personal name Babba (see Babb ) + the connective particle -ing- ‘associated with, named after’ + tūn ‘settlement’. The name may also be derived from Bebington in Cheshire (see 2 below) or Bevington in Warwickshire (see Bevington , which has sometimes been altered in spelling by association with Babington).
English (Cheshire and Lancashire): variant of Bebbington, a habitational name from Bebington in Cheshire, from the Old English personal name Bebba + the connective particle -ing- ‘associated with, named after’ + tūn ‘settlement’. The alteration to Bavington and Bevington shows a common development of -b- to -v- in placenames and surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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