When Ansel Searle was born on 3 October 1806, in Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Zophar Searle Jr., was 39 and his mother, Esther Sheldon, was 35. He married Abigail Bascom on 24 October 1828, in Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870 and Southampton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom in 1886. He died on 8 March 1886, in Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
English: from the Middle English personal name Serle, Serlo, Serily (ancient Germanic Sarilo, Serilo, possibly derived from a root sarw- ‘device, craft, skill, armor’ + suffix -il-), cognate with Old Norse Sǫrli. The name was frequent in Normandy and became common in England after the Conquest.
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