Margaret Reese

Brief Life History of Margaret

When Margaret Reese was born in 1795, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Rees, was 33 and her mother, Catherine Rees, was 33.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Rees
1762–
Catherine Rees
1762–1841
Mary Evans
1786–1864
William Rees
1791–1866
Rees Rees
1789–1839
Morgan Reese
1792–
Margaret Reese
1795–
Jane Reese
1800–

Sources (2)

  • Margaret Rees, "Wales, Glamorganshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1912"
  • Margaret Rees, "Wales, Glamorgan Parish Registers, 1558-1900"

World Events (8)

1815

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

1823

Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.

1830

Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).

Name Meaning

Welsh: variant of Rice .

North German and Dutch (De Reese): nickname for a very big man, from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch rese ‘giant’.

German: habitational name from any of the places called Rees or Reese, in Rhineland and Lower Saxony.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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