Brief Life History of Margaret
Margaret Bowker was born in 1785, in Cheshire, England. She married Randle Bradbury on 9 September 1806, in Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Hyde, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851.
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- Margaret Bredbury, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Peggy Bridbury in entry for Sidebotham Bridbury, "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977"
- Margaret Bredbury in household of Randal Bredbury, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
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1787 · English Convicts Sail to Australia
The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
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 (mainly Manchester): occupational name for someone whose job was to steep cotton or linen in lye (a strong alkali) to cleanse it, from Middle English bouker(e), boker(e), buker(e) ‘bleacher of cloth’. The name was also sometimes confused with Booker , and sometimes perhaps a variant of Butcher , with Norman French -k- for -ch-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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