When Dinah Murfin was born on 17 September 1807, in Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Murfin, was 26 and her mother, Ann Cant, was 21. She died on 28 June 1817, at the age of 9.
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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.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
English (Derbyshire): probably from the Middle English personal name Mer(e)fin; see Marvin .
History: The first Murfins in North America were Nottinghamshire Quakers. Robert and Ann Murfin and their daughter Mary sailed from Hull, England, in 1678 on the ship Shield of Stockton and settled at Chesterfield, near Burlington, NJ.
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