When John Ealey was born in 1779, in Ashingdon, Essex, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Ely, was 39 and his mother, Harriott Pratt, was 30. He married Hester Or Hetty Scott on 3 October 1804, in Eastwood, Essex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters.
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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 defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
English: variant of Ely .
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