When Richard Spencer Barton was born on 25 August 1804, in Church, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Spencer, was 33 and his mother, Margaret Barton, was 32. He married Elizabeth Halsall on 29 December 1831, in North Meols, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in North Meols, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years and Churchtown, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1871. He died in March 1878, at the age of 73, and was buried in North Meols, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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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.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
The Museum of Lancashire is located in the former courthouse of Preston in Lancashire, England. The building was designed by Thomas Rickman. Some the exhibits include Lancashire through the years, at work, at play, goes to war, and law and order. All depict different times and events in Lancashire county. The museum closed in 2015 and is now only opened for scheduled appointments.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bere or bær ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, i.e. an outlying grange. Compare Barwick . The name is also found in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bartún.
Polish (Bartoń); Czech and Slovak (mainly Bartoň): from a pet form of the personal name Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj, Slovak Bartolomej, from Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew ). This surname is also found in Germany.
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