Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Cleal was born about March 1787, in Crewkerne, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Cleal, was 21 and his mother, Zilpah Wiltshire, was 20. 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 died in January 1840, in Chard, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 52, and 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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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: probably a reduced form of Clayfield , with loss of -v- in the variant pronunciation Clevel; compare Elizabeth Clavel, 1759, Mary Clevel, 1757, William Clavil, 1768 in IGI (Wareham, Dorset).
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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