When Michael Gardner was born in 1786, in Alvescot, Oxfordshire, England, his father, Thomas Gardiner, was 44 and his mother, Jane Ilott, was 34. He married Rebecca Monk on 13 October 1814, in Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, England. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 9 February 1824, in Alvescot, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 38, and was buried in Alvescot, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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.
"Former slave Olaudah Equiano settled in London and published his autobiography titled ""The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano."" Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity. His autobiography is one of the oldest published works by an African-American writer."
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.
English and Scottish: occupational name from Middle English gardener ‘gardener’, Old French gardinier, jardinier.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Gärtner or Gartner and French Desjardins .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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