Brief Life History of Grace
When Grace Benfield was born about 1721, in Strood, Kent, England, United Kingdom, her father, Timothy Benfield, was 38 and her mother, Sarah Carman, was 33. She married John West on 15 November 1747, in Strood, Kent, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.
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- Grace in entry for Grace West, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RG4-SSVT?cc=1952887&wc=M62S-3TP%3A252597701%2C253914601%2C253957001
- Grace in entry for Grace West, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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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 one or more of the numerous places in England called Benfield or Binfield, which are named from Middle English bent ‘bent-grass’ + feld ‘open country’ or ‘land converted to arable use’ (Old English beonet + feld). See Benefield .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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