Brief Life History of Freeman Willis
When Freeman Willis Eliot was born in 1781, in Saint George, Antigua and Barbuda, his father, Samuel Eliot, was 37 and his mother, Alice Byam, was 35. He married Margaet Strahan on 23 July 1812, in Marylebone, London, England, United Kingdom. He died in 1840, in New Forest, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 59.
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- Freeman Willis Eliot, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- Freeman Willis Eliot, "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007"
- Freeman Willis Eliot, "England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988"
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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 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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