When Susan Burton was born on 31 July 1807, in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Burton, was 49 and her mother, Ann Widdeson, was 43.
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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.
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English: habitational name from a placename that is very common in central and northern England. The derivation in most cases is from Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke ) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
French (northeastern): regional variant of Berton .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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