Brief Life History of Geo.
When Geo. Whitekar was born in 1723, in Matlock, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Whittaker, was 24 and his mother, Ann Berks, was 25. He married Sarah Cooke on 12 August 1752, in Walsall, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom.
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- George Whitacker, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- George Whitacker, "England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918"
- Geo. Whitekar, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
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World Events (4)
1801 · The Act of Union
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.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
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.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a dresser of white leather, someone who tawed skins into whitleather, from Middle English whīt ‘white’ + tawyere, towyere, tewere, an agent noun from West Saxon Old English tāwian, Anglian * tēwian ‘to taw’.
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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