When Rebecca Hart was born in 1737, in Scropton, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Hart, was 24 and her mother, Mary Blackshaw, was 24. She married Joseph Elton on 17 July 1757, in Measham, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. She died on 10 May 1808, in Austrey, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 71, and was buried in Austrey, Warwickshire, 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 North German: nickname from Middle English hert (Old English heorot), Middle Low German hërte, harte ‘hart, stag’, perhaps for a quick-footed or timorous individual.
German: variant of Hardt 1 and 2. It is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name or nickname from German and Yiddish hart ‘hard’.
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