Brief Life History of Seth
When Seth Selby was born on 24 March 1805, in Easton Maudit, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edward Silby, was 34 and his mother, Dorothy Fox, was 28. He married Eleanor Knipe on 23 October 1828, in Holborn Division, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Clerkenwell St James, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years and St James, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1871. He died on 16 April 1873, in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 68.
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- Seth Sibley, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Seth Silby, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Seth Silby, "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007"
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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.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
English (Nottinghamshire) and Scottish: habitational name from Selby (Yorkshire). The placename may derive from Old English sele ‘willow copse’, sometimes alternating with salh ‘willow’, + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead, village’.
Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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