Brief Life History of Mariah
When Mariah Earp was born on 13 September 1807, in Tettenhall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Earp, was 36 and her mother, Maria Taylor, was 25. She had at least 5 sons and 4 daughters with John Dukes. She lived in Saint Mary's Church, Handsworth, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871 and Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1881. She died in September 1872, at the age of 65.
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- Mariah Dukes in household of John Dukes, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Maria, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Maria Earp, "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.
about 1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
Name Meaning
English (Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Derbyshire): nickname from Middle English erp, irpe, orp, an unrecorded survival of Old English earp, ierpe, and eorp ‘swarthy’.
Americanized form of German Erp .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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