Susanna Barham

Femaleabout January 1789–1878

Brief Life History of Susanna

When Susanna Barham was born about January 1789, in Mendham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Barham, was 40 and her mother, Ann Howel, was 41. She had at least 1 son with Peter Preston. She died in 1878, at the age of 90.

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Family Time Line

Peter Preston
Susanna Barham
1789–1878
Thomas Gooch Barham
1803–1878

Sources (1)

  • Susanna Preston in entry for Thomas Preston, "England, Surrey Parish Registers, 1536-1992"

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Children (1)

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Siblings (5)

World Events (6)

1801 · The Act of Union

Age 12

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.

1808 · The British West Africa Squadron

Age 19

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

Age 26

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of various places so called in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Kent, Sussex, and Devon. Most, for example those in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, are named with Old English beorg ‘hill’ + hām ‘homestead’. The one in Kent, however, is from an unattested Old English byname Biora, Beora (a derivative of bera ‘bear’) + hām.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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