When Ann Aland was born from 1782 to 1786, in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Aland, was 38 and her mother, Elizabeth Sparrow, was 30. She had at least 1 daughter. She lived in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841.
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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.
Scandinavian (Åland): topographic name from the Åland Islands in the Gulf of Bothnia.
English: topographic name from Middle English atte lande (Old French laund) ‘dweller at the glade or pasture’, or sometimes perhaps, ‘dweller at the old cultivated land(s)’ from Old English eald, ald ‘old’ + land ‘land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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