Brief Life History of Charles
When Charles Murton was born from 1802 to 1806, his father, Nicholas Murton, was 33 and his mother, Eleanor Chapman, was 29. He married Grace Spain about 1846, in Herne, Kent, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He was buried in Long Compton, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Charles Murton, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Charles Murton, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Charles Muston in entry for Matilda Eleanor Muston, "England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963"
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1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
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1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places in northern England, all named in Old English as ‘settlement or enclosure at the marsh or moor’, from mōr ‘marsh, fen, moor’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. There has been considerable confusion with both Morton and Merton .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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