When Elizabeth Marchbanks was born in 1803, in Plymouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Marchbanks, was 26 and her mother, Ann Brooks, was 21. She died about 1862, at the age of 60.
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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.
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Scottish: variant of Marjoribanks, a habitational name from Marjoribanks in Dumfriesshire. Marjoribanks was adopted by a branch of the Johnston family, tenants of the Bruce lords of Annandale. Following the acquisition of lands in the barony of Ratho (Midlothian) by Thomas Marjoribanks, legend developed that the name came from lands granted by Robert Bruce as a marriage portion to his daughter Marjorie (see Margeson ) on her marriage in 1316 to Walter, High Steward of Scotland, ancestor of the royal house of Stewart (Burke).
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