When Musgrave Messenger was born in 1785, in Aspatria, Cumberland, England, his father, John Messenger, was 23 and his mother, Mary Wilkinson, was 24. He had at least 3 sons and 4 daughters with Jane Coulthard. He lived in Cumberland, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Bothel, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom in 1861. He died in 1867, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 82.
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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: occupational name from Middle English messager, messenger ‘messenger’ (Old French messagier, messager).
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