When Jane Rouse was born on 9 September 1785, in Market Overton, Rutland, England, her father, John Rouse, was 39 and her mother, Mary Peasgood, was 29. She married John Killingley on 9 December 1807, in Edmondthorpe, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Rutland, England, United Kingdom in 1861. She died on 13 February 1864, in Oakham, Rutland, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 78.
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The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
"Former slave Olaudah Equiano settled in London and published his autobiography titled ""The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano."" Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity. His autobiography is one of the oldest published works by an African-American writer."
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: nickname for a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Middle English, Anglo-Norman French rous(e) ‘red(-haired)’ (from Latin russ(e)us).
Americanized form of German Raus .
Walloon and northern French (Rousé): variant of Rosé (see Rose ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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