When Squire Kershaw was born in 1804, in Clayton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Jacob Kershaw, was 28 and his mother, Mary Schofield, was 11801. He married Mary Child on 18 February 1828, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died in June 1834, in Clayton by Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 30, and was buried in Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Clayton by Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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.
The original Ouse Bridge collapsed in 1154 under the weight of a crowd that was on it. In 1367, after the bridge had been replaced with stone and became the site of the first public toilets. In 1564-1565 the bridge was finally done being repaired. In 1810 and 1818 the bridge was dismantled to make way for a new Ouse Bridge design and completed in 1821.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name, probably from Kershaw in Middleton (Lancashire), named as ‘church wood’ (Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + Old English sceaga ‘small wood, copse’). There are two minor places in Yorkshire called Kershaw, which may have been named after families bearing the Lancashire surname.
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