When Edward Briggs was born on 9 February 1805, in Kelham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edward Briggs, was 45 and his mother, Elizabeth Shepherd, was 34. He married Ann Wadkin on 28 October 1823, in Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died in August 1880, in Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 75, and was buried in Nottinghamshire, 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.
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English: variant of Brigg, with post-medieval excrescent -s, from Middle English brig(g) (Old Norse bryggja), the northern and Scottish word for bridge, for someone who lived by a bridge or who came from any of the places called from the word.
History: The surname Briggs is found chiefly in West Yorkshire. A family of gentry have held lands at Keighley in West Yorkshire continuously for 500 years. The mathematician Henry Briggs (1561–1631), who invented logarithms, was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.
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