When Ann Tyrrell was born about 1787, in Pulham, Norfolk, England, her father, Nathaniel Tyrell, was 28 and her mother, Ann Brown, was 29. She married Robert Thirkettle on 15 November 1804, in Pulham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She died in March 1845, in Pulham Saint Mary Magdalene, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 59, and was buried in Pulham Saint Mary Magdalene, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom.
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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.
"Former slave Olaudah Equiano settled in London and published his autobiography titled ""The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano."" Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity. His autobiography is one of the oldest published works by an African-American writer."
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.
English and Irish (of Norman origin): perhaps a nickname from a derivative of Old French tirer ‘to pull’, in the same sense as French Tirand ‘one who pulls on the reins’, hence ‘obstinate, stubborn’. This name may have become confused with Turrell . A branch of this Anglo-Norman family has been in Ireland since the 12th century. Its name has been Gaelicized as Tirial.
English: habitational name from Tirril (Cumbria), which derives from Old Norse tyri ‘resinous wood’ + erg ‘shieling’.
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