When Richard Winsby was born in 1806, in Leyburn, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Winsby, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth Varo, was 24. He married Dorothy Ratcliffe on 6 July 1829, in Wensley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Wensley, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. In 1841, at the age of 35, his occupation is listed as carpenter. He died before 1861.
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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 (Middlesex and Essex): habitational name from Whisby in Lincolnshire, named from the Old Norse personal name Hvit (genitive Hvits) + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead, village’. Alternatively, a habitational name from Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, named from Old English wise ‘river, swamp’ or wisce ‘marshy meadow’, or from the river Wissey (from Old English wise) + bece, bæce ‘stream, valley’.
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