When Ann Craven was born in 1765, in Rothwell, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Craven, was 43 and her mother, Hannah Clarke, was 49. She married Richard Dobson on 4 November 1793, in Rothwell, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters.
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The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
The original Ouse Bridge collapsed in 1154 under the weight of a crowd that was on it. In 1367, after the bridge had been replaced with stone and became the site of the first public toilets. In 1564-1565 the bridge was finally done being repaired. In 1810 and 1818 the bridge was dismantled to make way for a new Ouse Bridge design and completed in 1821.
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Crabháin (County Galway) or Mac Crabháin (Louth, County Monaghan) ‘descendant (or ‘son’) of Crabhán’.
English (northern): habitational name from the district of Craven in Yorkshire, which is probably ‘garlic place’, from a British word, the ancestor of Welsh craf ‘garlic’.
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