When William Pearn was born in 1772, his father, John Pearn, was 28 and his mother, Joannah Congdon, was 27. He married Elizabeth Budge on 16 August 1791, in Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died on 25 September 1829, in Stoke Climsland, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 57, and was buried in Stoke Climsland, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
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 (Cornwall): habitational name from a lost or as yet unidentified place, presumably named with the Middle English and Old English adjective peren ‘having pears’.
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