When John Whaley was born in 1779, in Clayton by Bradford, Yorkshire, England, his father, James Whaley, was 35 and his mother, Hannah Robertshaw, was 31. He married Ursula Armitage on 11 November 1793, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Bradford St James, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. He died on 2 March 1850, at the age of 71.
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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.
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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.
English (northern): habitational name from Whalley (Lancashire) or Whaley in Bolsover (Derbyshire). The Lancashire placename may derive from Old English hwæl ‘hill’ + lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’. The Derbyshire placename may derive from Old English wall ‘wall’, walh ‘Welshman, foreigner’ (genitive plural wala), or wælla ‘well, spring, stream’ + lēah.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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