When Roland Tennyson Peel was born on 9 October 1892, in North Rode, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edward Lennox Peel, was 36 and his mother, Amy Sparrow, was 38. He lived in Wavertree, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1892 and Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. He died in June 1945, at the age of 52.
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The East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a group of volunteers in a unit of Britian's Royal Engineers. They were started in Manchester in 1901. They fought on the western front during WWI and were part of the Dunkirk Evacuation during WWII.
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.
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English (mainly northern): topographic name for someone who lived or worked at a small castle, a wooden fort, or a house defended by a palisade (Middle English and Old French pel, piel ‘stake, pallisade’), or a habitational name from a place so named.
English (mainly northern): variant of Pell .
English (mainly northern): nickname from Middle English and Old French pel ‘stake’, perhaps for a tall, thin person.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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