When Esther Denning was born in 1787, in Buckland St Mary, Somerset, England, her father, Joseph Denning, was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth Ashman, was 31. She married Joseph Button on 25 December 1808, in Kilmersdon, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Kilmersdon, Somerset, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. She died on 1 September 1863, in Frome, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 76.
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The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
"Former slave Olaudah Equiano settled in London and published his autobiography titled ""The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano."" Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity. His autobiography is one of the oldest published works by an African-American writer."
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.
English: from the Middle English personal name Denning, a derivative of Old English Dynna, a name of uncertain origin, but perhaps derived from dunn ‘brown, dun-colored’.
Irish (northern): variant of Dineen .
German: habitational name from Denning in Bavaria.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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