William Legg

Brief Life History of William

When William Legg was born about 1805, in England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Legg, was 37 and his mother, Susanna Rendall, was 33. He married Elizabeth Ann Bozarth on 10 November 1834, in Marion, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 24 July 1835, in Liberty Township, Clay, Missouri, United States, at the age of 31.

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William Legg
1805–1835
Elizabeth Ann Bozarth
1817–1871
Marriage: 10 November 1834
William Thomas Lehi Legg
1835–1913

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  • William Legg, "Missouri, Marriages, 1750-1920"

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World Events (8)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

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

English (mainly West Country): nickname for someone with some peculiarity of the leg, from Middle English legg ‘leg’ (Old Norse leggr).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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