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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The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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.
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