Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Temple was born in 1668, in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, her father, John Temple, was 36 and her mother, Jane Yarner, was 28. She married Sir Thomas Flower about 1692, in Ireland. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 25 March 1751, in England, at the age of 83.
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- Mary Temple, "Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881"
- Mary Temple, "Ireland Marriages, 1619-1898"
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World Events (6)
1672
Over 6,000 Irish boys and women sold as slaves since England gained control of Jamaica.
1688 · Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution brought the downfall of Catholic King James II and the reign of his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange.
1690
William of Orange (William III) lands at Carrickfergus and defeats James II at Battle of the Boyne.
Name Meaning
English (northern England and London), Scottish, and French: from Middle English, Old French temple ‘temple’ (from Latin templum), denoting a religious house or manorial estate of the Knights Templar. The surname may be a metonymic occupational name for someone who lived or worked at such an establishment, or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Temple in Cornwall (Midlothian). The Knights Templar were a crusading order, so named because they claimed to occupy in Jerusalem the site of the old temple. The order was founded in 1118 and flourished for 200 years, but was suppressed as heretical in 1312.
English: nickname given to foundlings baptized at the Temple Church, London, so called because it was originally built on land belonging to the Templars.
Americanized form of North German or Dutch Tempel 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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