Jane Wallwork

Brief Life History of Jane

When Jane Wallwork was born on 22 September 1754, in Clifton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Wallwork, was 46 and her mother, Ann Jackson, was 42. She married John Maken about 1770, in Clifton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.

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John Maken
1750–
Jane Wallwork
1754–
Marriage: about 1770

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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 (Lancashire): habitational name of uncertain origin. Thomas de Wallerwork was living in Lancashire c. 1324. Throughout the Middle Ages English forms in -work alternate with ones in -worth, and the surname may derive from places in County Durham or Greater London called Walworth .

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