When Thomas Roberts was born on 2 December 1741, in Markham Clinton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Roberts, was 20 and his mother, Elizabeth Taylor, was 19. He married Elizabeth Otter on 11 February 1765, in Markham Clinton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 2 June 1813, at the age of 71, and was buried in Ragnall, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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.
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.
English: from the personal name Robert , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also occasionally borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
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