Samuel Gardiner

Maleabout 1719–

Brief Life History of Samuel

When Samuel Gardiner was born about 1719, in Bisley, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Gardiner, was 31 and his mother, Mary King, was 31. He married Sarah Lyday on 28 July 1744.

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Samuel Gardiner
1719–
Sarah Lyday
1723–
Marriage: 28 July 1744

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  • Marriage
    28 July 1744
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    World Events (4)

    1801 · The Act of Union

    Age 82

    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

    Age 89

    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

    Age 96

    The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

    Name Meaning

    English and Scottish: variant of Gardner .

    History: Lion Gardiner came from England in 1635 to Saybrook, CT, the settlement of Earl of Warwick patentees at the mouth of the Connecticut River, and built a fort there. Born in 1636, his son, David, was the first white child born in the settlement. Lion later bought the Isle of Wight, now Gardiners Island, from the Indians, and moved his family there until 1653, when he bought land in what is now Easthampton, Long Island, NY.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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