Researching Wesley Somerville
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2493 people with the Somerville surname? In that year Somerville was ranked number 1564 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Wesley means "The West Meadow" and is of English origin.
Records of Wesley Somerville on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Wesley Somerville and the Somerville Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 3636 people with the Somerville surname in the UK? Somerville is now ranked number 1566 for popularity in the UK. |
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| Did you know that there are currently 9115 people with the Somerville surname in the USA? Somerville is ranked number 154 for popularity in the USA. |
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Wesley Somerville
William Wesley Somerville (c. 1941 – 31 July 1975) was an Ulster loyalist militant, who held the rank of lieutenant in the illegal Ulster Volunteer Force's (UVF) Mid-Ulster Brigade during the period of conflict known as "the Troubles". With claims that his brother (John Somerville) and Wesley were a part of the UDR Ulster Defence Regiment which was later found to be false. Somerville was part of the UVF unit that ambushed the Irish cabaret band The Miami Showband at Buskhill, County Down, which resulted in the deaths of three of the bandmembers. Somerville killed himself, along with Harris Boyle, when the bomb they had loaded onto the band's minibus exploded prematurely. His brother, John James Somerville, was one of the three convicted murderers of bandmembers Brian McCoy, Fran O'Toole and Tony Geraghty.
He was allegedly a part of the UVF team that exploded a car bomb in Monaghan on 17 May 1974 which killed seven people.
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