When Thomas Winterburn was christened on 19 February 1769, in Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, England, his father, William Winterburn, was 32 and his mother, Mary Ward, was 19. He married Isabel Robinson on 23 November 1825, in Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He was buried in Burnsall, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
"On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the ""shot heard around the world"" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England."
"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."
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from any of various places called with Old English winter-burna ‘winter stream’, for a stream which only flows, or flows at a faster rate, during the winter and more or less dries up in summer, such as Winterburn in Gargrave (Yorkshire), Winterbourne (Berkshire, Gloucestershire), Winterbourne Bassett (Wiltshire), or one of thirteen parishes named Winterborne in Dorset, including Winterborne Abbas, Winterborne Monkton, and Winterborne Zelstone. In most cases, the form Winterburn can be associated with Winterburn in Gargrave (Yorkshire), though no such association can be made between other surname forms and corresponding placenames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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