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This category is for feminine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language feminine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
Edwards was probably born in London in about 1704 or 1705. Her mother came from the Dutch family who had drained the fens and her father, Francis Edwards (d. 1729), a member of the landed gentry, owned lands in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, London & Middlesex, Essex, Hertfordshire and Kent and he had shares in the New River Company in Islington.
New England colonists living in Puritan-established settlements in the seventeenth century dealt with many of the same realities. Colonial settlements in New England saw a rapid expansion from roughly 1620 onward. The common assumption that Puritan society was homogeneous holds some truth, excepting matters of wealth.
Snell moved back in with her sibling Susannah and her brother-in-law, James Gray. On 23 November 1745, Snell put on her brother-in-law's clothes, assumed his name, and went to Coventry to search for Summs. [12] [13] [14] Later, she learned that her husband had been executed for murder. [15] While in Coventry, she enlisted in the British Army. [13]
Royal African Company: 7 February 1662 New England Company: 15 July 1662 Royal Society: 1662 Bradford Grammar School: 16 February 1663 Cooks' Company: 21 December 1663 Innholders' Company: 17 March 1664 Canary Company: 30 June 1664 Royal Scottish Corporation: 1 December 1664 Hat-Band Makers' Company: 18 May 1666 Broadweavers and Clothiers ...
On 4 May [O.S. 14 May] 1607, 105 to 108 English men and boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of the James River. It became the first long-term English settlement in North America. [1] [2]
Ann Lea (1661–1728) was a British lithographer, map and globe seller and publisher in London who prepared maps for several works including Christopher Saxton's The Traveller's Guide being the best map of the Kingdom of England and Principality of Wales (20 sheets) and Robert Morden's A new map of the West-Indies, or the islands of America 1702.
At this point the United States was the Royal’s largest single market, representing 41% of its worldwide general insurance premiums. The acquisitions continued unabated. To strengthen its life business, Royal bought Lloyd’s Life in 1985 for £93 million, followed by the US life company Macabees in 1989.