When Elizabeth Denham was christened on 27 September 1776, in Feckenham, Worcestershire, England, her father, Robert Denham Jr., was 41 and her mother, Sarah Maund, was 36. She married Joseph Southall on 29 November 1794, in Feckenham, Worcestershire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter.
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The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
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English: habitational name from any of various places so called, derived from Old English denu ‘valley’ + hām ‘homestead’, for example Denham in Buckinghamshire (near Uxbridge), Denham near Bury Saint Edmunds or Denham near Eye, both in Suffolk, or from Denholme in Yorkshire, named with Old English denu + Old Norse holmr ‘island, water-meadow’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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