past lives;
1920 - 1944: Lionel Steward. British soldier. Died on D-Day.
1895 - 1916: Leopold Cather. British soldier. Died at the Battle of the Somme.
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1614-1658: Mary Anne Howard. Daughter of Thomas Howard and Alathea Talbot. Basically eloped with Geoffrey Ferrers circa 1635 to the new American colony, where he eventually helped to found Greenwich, Connecticut.
1603: King James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England, thus unifying the Scottish and English kingdoms; the origin of the rhyme.