Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Laybourn was born in 1691, in Nafferton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Christopher Laybourn, was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth Huitson, was 35. She married Robert Wilson on 30 June 1729, in Nafferton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.
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- Eliz. Laybourne, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Leyburn in North Yorkshire, High Leybourne in Godalming in Surrey, or Leybourne in Kent. The North Yorkshire name may derive from Old English hlēg ‘shelter’ + burna ‘spring, stream’. The Surrey placename may derive from an Old English personal name Lealla + Old English burna. The Kent placename probably derives from a lost stream name Lille (of uncertain origin) + Old English burna.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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