Brief Life History of William
When William Hawkesford was born in 1714, in Halesowen, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edward Hawkesford, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Searl, was 39. He married Mary on 26 December 1735, in Halesowen, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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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
1 English: locative name, perhaps from Hawksworth (Notts), which is recorded as Hawksforth in 1535 in Valor Ecclesiasticus . Some examples may belong under (2).
2 English: locative name from a lost or as yet unidentified place of this name, probably in Warwicks or Staffs. It is clearly originally Hawkford, with an excrescent medial -s-, and may be from Halford (Warwicks), recorded as Halgford, Halchford, 1232 in Assize Rolls (Warwicks).
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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