Brief Life History of Mary Ann
When Mary Ann Needham was born about 1783, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Jeremiah Needham, was 21 and her mother, Phoebe Robinson, was 22. She married William Barber on 29 April 1805, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died in 1828, in England, United Kingdom, at the age of 46.
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- Ann Needham, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Mary Ann Needham, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- Mary Ann Barber in entry for Mary Ann, "England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963"
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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: habitational name from any of various places so named, such as High Needham in Hartington (Derbyshire), Needham in Elm (Cambridgeshire), Needham (Norfolk), Needham in Yaxley, Needham Street in Gazeley or Needham Market (all in Suffolk). These places are named with Old English nēd ‘need, hardship’ + hām ‘homestead’, denoting a place that provided a poor living.
Irish (County Mayo): Anglicized form of Ó Niadh, see Nee .
History: English explorer James Needham carried the name to the southern Carolina settlement, arriving from Barbados in 1670 as a young man.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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