Brief Life History of Alice
When Alice Butcher was born in 1780, in Cambridgeshire, England, her father, John Butcher, was 36 and her mother, Elizabeth Empey, was 29. She married William Askew on 25 June 1780, in Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Graveley, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She was buried in Graveley, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Alice Fisher in household of John Fisher, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Alice Butcher, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- Alice Butcher, "England, Cambridge Parish Registers, 1538-1983 "
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1787 · English Convicts Sail to Australia
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.
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.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a butcher or slaughterer, from Middle English, Anglo-Norman French bocher, bouch(i)er, bowcher (Old French bochier, bouchier, a derivative of bouc ‘ram’).
Americanized form of Slovenian and Croatian Bučar (see Bucar ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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