Brief Life History of Benjamin
When Benjamin Hodder was born in 1782, in Uplyme, Devon, England, United Kingdom, his father, Lionel Hodder, was 22 and his mother, Elizabeth Fowler, was 21. He married Elizabeth Symes on 5 July 1808, in Uplyme, Devon, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He died in January 1861, in Chard, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 79.
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- Benjn Hodder, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Legacy NFS Source: Benjamin Hodder - Published information: birth: about 1782; England, United Kingdom
- England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915
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1801 · The Act of Union
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
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.
Name Meaning
English (southwestern England and south Wales): occupational name for a maker or seller of hoods, from an agent derivative of Middle English hod ‘hood’ (Old English hōd). See Hood .
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