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Personal data WILLIAM LEWIS 

  • He was born in the year 1740 in Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England.
  • He was baptized on February 11, 1740 in St. James the Lees, Iron Acton, Bristol, Gloucestershire.
    Name: William Lewis
    Gender: Male
    Baptism Age: 0
    Event Type: Baptism
    Birth Date: 1740
    Baptism Date: 11 Feb 1740
    Baptism Place: Iron Acton, St James the Less, Gloucestershire, England
    Register Type: Parish Register
    Father: William Lewis
    Mother: Hannah Lewis
  • (Relation to BPO) in 4x GREAT GRANDFATHER.
  • He died on June 30, 1825 in Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England, he was 85 years old.
    Name William Lewis
    Gender Male
    Residence June 30 1825
     Gloucestershire, Iron Acton, St James The Less
    Burial June 30 1825
     Iron Acton, St James The Less, Gloucestershire, England
    Age 76
    GS Film number 4255686
    Digital Folder Number 4255686
    Image Number 00029
  • This information was last updated on August 13, 2023.

Household of WILLIAM LEWIS

He is married to EDITH STAFFORD.

They got married on June 29, 1771 at St. James the Lees, Iron Acton, Bristol, Gloucestershire, he was 31 years old.

Name: William Lewis
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 29 Jun 1771
Marriage Place: Iron Acton, St James the Less, Gloucestershire, England
Register Type: Parish Register
Spouse: Edith Stafford

Child(ren):

  1. ESTHER LEWIS  1774-1855 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of WILLIAM LEWIS

WILLIAM LEWIS
1740-1825

1771

EDITH STAFFORD
± 1749-????

ESTHER LEWIS
1774-1855

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Christening day February 11, 1740

  • The temperature on February 11, 1740 was about -1 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1740: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
    • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
    • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
    • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
    • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
    • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

Day of marriage June 29, 1771

  • The temperature on June 29, 1771 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: donker. Special wheather fenomena: dauw. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1771: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 12 » Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
    • May 16 » The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
    • July 14 » Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
    • July 17 » Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
    • October 17 » Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.

Day of death June 30, 1825

  • The temperature on June 30, 1825 was about 17.0 °C. There was 308 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. Special wheather fenomena: . Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1825: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 27 » The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".
    • February 12 » The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
    • June 4 » General Lafayette, a French officer in the American Revolutionary War, speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States.
    • August 6 » The Bolivian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
    • August 25 » Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
    • October 26 » The Erie Canal opens, allowing direct passage from the Hudson River to Lake Erie.


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