Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Dance was born on 11 March 1804, in Lambourn, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Charles Dance, was 17 and her mother, Hannah Maria Gosling, was 19. She married James Payne in 1824, in Childrey, Berkshire, England. They were the parents of at least 13 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Letcombe Regis, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and St Thomas in the Moors, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851.
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- Sarah Pain in household of James Pain, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Legacy NFS Source: Sarah Ann Read - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Sarah Ann Read
- Sarah Dance, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
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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.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English dance ‘dance’, hence a nickname for a skilled or enthusiastic dancer or leader of a dance, or a metonymic occupational name for a professional acrobat or dancer.
Probably an Americanized form (translation into English) or Americanized form of German Danz .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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