Brief Life History of Stephen
When Stephen Billington was born in 1814, in Garstang, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Richard Billington, was 30 and his mother, Grace Alston, was 29. He married Mary Waddington on 21 February 1846, in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Bleasdale, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Barnacre, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. He died on 9 January 1889, in Garstang, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 75.
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- Stephen Billington, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
- Stephen Billington, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Stephen Billington, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
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1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1825 · Museum of Lancashire
The Museum of Lancashire is located in the former courthouse of Preston in Lancashire, England. The building was designed by Thomas Rickman. Some the exhibits include Lancashire through the years, at work, at play, goes to war, and law and order. All depict different times and events in Lancashire county. The museum closed in 2015 and is now only opened for scheduled appointments.
1842 · Mines and Collieries Act of 1842
The Parliment of the United Kingdom passed the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842, mostly commonly known as the Mines Act of 1842. This act made it so that nobody under the age of ten could work in the mines and also females in general could not be employed.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Billington, in Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Bedfordshire. The first of these is first recorded in 1196 as Billingduna ‘sword-shaped hill’ (see Bill 2); the second is in Domesday Book as Belintone ‘settlement (Old English tūn) of Billa’; the one in Bedfordshire is recorded in 1196 as Billendon, from an Old English personal name Billa + dūn ‘hill’. The place in Lancashire is the most likely source of the surname.
History: John Billington (1580–1630), from Spalding, Lincolnshire, was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620 and an early settler in Plymouth Colony. Governor Bradford called him ‘the profanest’ of the settlers; eventually he was hanged for murder. His son Francis married and had children.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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