Brief Life History of Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith Clear was born about March 1787, in Crewkerne, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. He married Sarah Ann Parker on 9 May 1818, in Crewkerne, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He was buried in Crewkerne, Somerset, England, United Kingdom.
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- Dorset, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906
- England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973
- England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
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World Events (6)
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.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
English (southeastern England, of Norman origin): from Clere, the French popular form of the personal name Clare 2, and possibly interchangeable with it or confused with it.
English (southeastern): probably a habitational name from clere, a component of several placenames in north Hampshire (Highclere, Burghclere, Kingsclere). This is probably from a Celtic stream name meaning ‘bright’ (cognate with Latin clarus ‘clear, bright’).
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Klar 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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