When Abraham Crowther Pitchforth was born on 29 March 1797, in Shaw, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Solomon Pitchforth, was 30 and his mother, Mercy Crowther, was 26. He married Elizabeth Walker on 23 July 1825, in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. He lived in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Elland, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871. He died on 28 December 1876, in Shaw, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 79, and was buried in Elland, Yorkshire, 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 defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
The original Ouse Bridge collapsed in 1154 under the weight of a crowd that was on it. In 1367, after the bridge had been replaced with stone and became the site of the first public toilets. In 1564-1565 the bridge was finally done being repaired. In 1810 and 1818 the bridge was dismantled to make way for a new Ouse Bridge design and completed in 1821.
English: see Pitchford .
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