Brief Life History of William Salter
When William Salter Fulcher was born on 2 October 1803, in Newbourn, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, Anthony Fulcher, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth Salter, was 34. He married Maria Pinkenny on 6 April 1826, in Bucklesham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Bucklesham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom in 1841.
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- William Fulcher, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- William Fulcher, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- William Fulcher in entry for Albert Fulcher, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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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.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Name Meaning
English (mainly East Anglia): from the Middle English personal name Fulcher, Fulchier, Fulger, Fulker, Foucher, a name of Norman introduction, from an Old French form of ancient Germanic Fulchar, Fulcher. Old English Folchere (not recorded after 824) and Old Danish Folkar (otherwise unrecorded in England) are alternative, but unlikely sources of the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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