Brief Life History of Thomas Melville
Thomas Melville Dill lost his master's certificate after the wreck of the Bermudian-built Cedrine on the Isle of Wight, which had been returning the last convict labourers from the Royal Naval Dockyard in Bermuda to Britain in 1863. His family went back to the 1600s in Bermuda. He was born there in 1805 and died in 1866.
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- Thomas Melville Dill, "Find A Grave Index"
- DILL Family of Bermuda
- Early Bermuda Records (EBR)
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World Events (6)
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
German: from a pet form of the personal name Dietrich .
German: metonymic occupational name for a sawyer, from Middle High German dill(e) ‘(floor)board’.
German: habitational name from Dill (Rhineland-Palatinate) or Dille (Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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