Brief Life History of Ellen
When Ellen Hardman was born in 1779, in Lea Town, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Hardman, was 37 and her mother, Jane Kilshaw, was 35.
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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
English: occupational name from Middle English herdeman, herdema+n, hurdeman (Old English hierdeman, heordman) ‘herdsman, one who tends livestock’. Compare Heard .
English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name Hardman (Old English Heardmann, literally ‘hard man’).
English and Irish: shortened form of Hardeman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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