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The name of British Legion , or British Legions , was given to a group of foreign volunteers, who formed military units to fight under the command of General Simón Bolívar in the war of independence of the current countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Its units were part of the armies of the third republic of Venezuela and the extinct Gran Colombia ( ). British Legion ...
Sivusto on rakenteilla. Tähän projektiin voi etsiä ja liittää Oulun porvareita; kaupan ja käsityön harjoittajia ja heidän Geni-profiileitaan. Porvaristo Suomessa Ruotsin vallan aikana Suomessakin porvarissääty oli yksi neljästä valtiosäädystä. Muut olivat aatelisto, papisto ja talonpojat. Porvaristolla ja kaupungeilla oli eräitä varsinkin elinkeinojen harjoittamista koskevia erioikeuksia, jot...
The term mercer for cloth merchants (from French mercier, "notions dealer") is now largely obsolete. Mercers were formerly merchants or traders who dealt in cloth, typically fine cloth that was not produced locally. However inventories of mercers in small towns suggest that many were shopkeepers who dealt in various other dry commodities, not only cloth. Related occupations include haberdasher,...
Merchants of London including trades persons, stall holders and importers to London.These people tended to keep to their trades, marry withing their community and business interests. They passed on the businesses to sons or sons in law.Genealogy by association proves most helpful and as we go further back in time, we find the connections stronger within trades or industries.Please also add merc...
The Medieval Merchant's House, Hampshire, England= The Medieval Merchant's House is a restored late-13th-century building in Southampton, Hampshire, England. Built in about 1290 by John Fortin, a prosperous merchant, the house survived many centuries of domestic and commercial use largely intact. German bomb damage in 1940 revealed the medieval interior of the house, and in the 1980s it was res...
The Worshipful Company of Mercers is the premier Livery Company of the City of London and ranks first in the order of precedence of the Companies. It is the first of the so-called 'Great Twelve City Livery Companies'. ==History==The records of the Mercers’ Company date back to 1348 but the Company is certainly older than this for in that year new ordinances were drawn up for the conduct of its ...