Located in the province of Leinster, the Eastern and Midland Region. It formed part of the historic Kingdom of Meath. The kingdom was named Mide (meaning 'middle') because it was located in the geographical center of Ireland. Following the Norman invasion, the territory formed the basis for the Anglo-Norman Lordship of Meath granted by King Henry II of England to Hugh de Lacy in 1172. <\/span><\/span>","Hundred<\/strong> derived from the Danish or Norse word wapentake which literally meant the taking up of weapons that were laid aside after an agreement was first used by the Saxons between 613 and 1017. One hundred held enough land to sustain approximately 100 households, or in other words land covered by one hundred \"hides\".","Ireland<\/strong> was first settled around 6000 BC by a race of Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers who lived there. They tended to hunt such creatures as the megaceros, a giant variety of deer so large that their antlers spanned ten feet. ","Located on the South East side of England, Kent <\/strong>is considered one of the Home Counties. Bordered by Greater London, Surrey, East Sussex and Essex it also runs across the estuary of the River Thames and the Strait of Dover.","Dutch navigator Willem Jansz<\/strong> aboard the Duyfken was the first European to land in waht is now known as Australia<\/strong> in 1606. He charted much of the Gulf of Carpentaria, located on the northern coast of Australia. In 1616, another Dutch captain, Dirk Hartog, landed on the west coast of Australia near Shark Bay.",null],"lnksHoverSummaryImgURL":[null,"\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/bayeux1.webp?pos=floatRight","","","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Essex England.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/books.webp?pos=floatRight","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Cambridgeshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Oxfordshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/castle1.webp","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Yorkshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/ireland_westmeath.webp?pos=floatRight","","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Kent England.webp?pos=floatRight","",null],"mode":"f","s":"Moten","sU":"MOTT","oC":"EN","o":"English","o2":null,"cOk":true,"c":"\/dpreview\/MOTT\/EN\/Moten\/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","c2":"\/dpreview\/ANDERSON\/SC\/Anderson\/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","v":"1","sections":["","SettlersUS","SettlersCA","SettlersAU","SettlersNZ","SettlersZA","SettlersWI","Settlers","ContemporaryNotable","ContemporaryNotables","HistoricEvents","RelatedStories","Motto","SuggestedReading","Citations",""]}
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