When Alicia Eliot Countess of Erroll was born in 1775, in Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda, her father, Samuel Eliot, was 31 and her mother, Alice Byam, was 29. She married William Hay on 3 August 1796, in Marylebone, Middlesex, England. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 24 April 1812, in Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 37, and was buried in Bath, Somerset, 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.
English and Scottish: variant of Elliott .
History: Andrew Eliot, a shoemaker of East Coker, Somerset, England, who emigrated to Boston, MA, in 1670, was the founder of a distinguished American family which included the poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), who was born in St. Louis, MO. The earliest Eliot recorded in North America was John Eliot (1604–90), a Puritan missionary known as the ‘Indian Apostle’, who was born in Hertfordshire and sailed to Boston in 1631. He later settled in Roxbury, MA.
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