When Thomas Staniforth was christened on 3 March 1691, in Eckington, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Staniforth, was 26 and his mother, Ann Worthington, was 23. He had at least 2 sons with Ann Newbit.
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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.
English: habitational name from an unidentified place, probably near Sheffield (Yorkshire), where the surname is common. The placename appears to derive from Old English stānig ‘stony’ + ford ‘ford’.
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