When Ann Cressey was born in 1794, in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, her father, John Cressey, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Rudd, was 28. She married Charles Topham on 18 July 1815, in Saint Mary the Virgin, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died in September 1824, in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 30, and was buried in St Peter with St. James Church, Nottingham, 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.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Creasey .
Probably also an altered form of German Kresse or Kresser .
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