Brief Life History of Daniel
When Daniel Clayton was born on 29 August 1789, in Lowdham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Daniel Clayton, was 39 and his mother, Sarah Leavers, was 40. He married Hannah Screton on 22 May 1815, in Lambley, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. He died on 2 April 1858, at the age of 68.
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- Daniel Clayton, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Marriage Daniel Clayton and Hannah Screton 1815
- England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915 - Ancestry.com Daniel Clayton
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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: habitational name from any of numerous places, in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Sussex, named Clayton, from Old English clǣg ‘clay’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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