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Her father, John Harvey, was born in Cornwall in 1771 to John (1736–1778) and Margaret Ann Harvey (née Parker) (1736–1790). He was involved in merchant shipping and privateering , earning a great amount of wealth over the years, and married Elizabeth Harvey ( née Guille) when they were both 19.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. Italian supercentenarian (1899–2017) Emma Morano Dame Grand Cross OMRI Morano in 1943 Born Emma Martina Luigia Morano (1899-11-29) 29 November 1899 Civiasco, Vercelli, Kingdom of Italy Died (2017-04-15) 15 April 2017 (aged 117 years, 137 days) Verbania, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Italy ...
Last person in Great Britain to be executed for blasphemy Thomas Aikenhead ( bapt. 28 March 1676 – 8 January 1697) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was a Scottish student from Edinburgh , who was prosecuted and executed at the age of 20, on a charge of blasphemy under the Blasphemy Act 1661 and Blasphemy Act 1695 .
Samuel Rutherford was born in the parish of Nisbet (now part of Crailing), [4] Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders, about 1600. Nothing certain is known as to his parentage, but he belonged to the same line as the Roxburghs of Hunthill (from whom Sir Walter Scott was descended) [ 5 ] and his father is believed to have been a farmer or miller.
Mary Dyer (born Marie Barrett; c. 1611 – 1 June 1660) was an English and colonial American Puritan-turned-Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony due to their theological expansion of the Puritan concept of a church of individuals regenerated by the Holy Spirit to the idea of the indwelling of the Spirit ...
Family quotes from famous people. 11. “In America, there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.” —Robert Benchley (July 1934) 12. “There is no such thing as fun for the ...
Thomas "Old Tom" Parr (c. 1482 or 1483 (reputedly) – 13 November 1635) was an Englishman who was said to have lived for 152 years. [1] A portrait of Parr hangs at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, with an inscription which reads "Thomas Parr died at the age of 152 years 19 days" "The old very old man or Thomas Parr, son of John Parr of Winnington in the Parish of Alberbury who was born in ...
Walken, along with Wagner, were two of the three people on Wood and Wagner’s boat, the Splendour, when she was found dead on Nov. 29, 1981. Quotes Christopher Walken has given about Natalie Wood ...