Brief Life History of Ann
When Ann Skinner was christened on 2 July 1776, in Ashburton, Devon, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Skinner, was 38 and her mother, Mary Honeywell, was 32.
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- Ann Skinner, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Ann Skinner, "England, Devon Bishop's Transcripts, 1558-1887"
- Ann Skinner, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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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: occupational name for someone who stripped the hide from animals to be used in the production of fur garments, or to be tanned for leather, from Middle English skinner ‘skinner’, an agent derivative of Middle English skin(n) ‘hide, pelt’ (Old Norse skinn).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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