When Robert Tilling was christened on 24 August 1777, in Ashbury, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Robert Tilling, was 31 and his mother, Maria Arnold, was 32. He married Sarah Martin on 18 February 1807, in Blewbury, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters.
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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 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.
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