When Jane Sturdy was born in 1767, in Moorside, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Sturdy, was 20 and her mother, Elizabeth Gray, was 18. She married John Jackson in 1792. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 9 December 1839, in Kirkbymoorside, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 72.
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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.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
The original Ouse Bridge collapsed in 1154 under the weight of a crowd that was on it. In 1367, after the bridge had been replaced with stone and became the site of the first public toilets. In 1564-1565 the bridge was finally done being repaired. In 1810 and 1818 the bridge was dismantled to make way for a new Ouse Bridge design and completed in 1821.
English (North Yorkshire): nickname from Middle English st(o)urdi ‘bold, valiant; reckless, rash’ (Old French esto(u)rdi(t), past participle of estourdir ‘to daze or stupefy’).
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