Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Ward was born about 1774, in Sprowston, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edmund Ward, was 44 and her mother, Elizabeth Stolworthy, was 39. She married Thomas Hotson on 20 November 1794, in Sprowston, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom.
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- Sarah Ward, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Sarah Ward, "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991"
- Sarah Ward, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
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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 a watchman or guard, from Middle English ward ‘watchman, guard’ (Old English weard, used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).
English: occupational name from Middle English warde ‘armed guard’ (Old English weard ‘watching, guarding’), with the same meaning as 1 above.
Irish: shortened form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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