Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Crofts was born on 27 September 1779, in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, Peter Crofts, was 25 and his mother, Jane Adams, was 23. He married Margaret Lindsley on 17 August 1801, in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1837. He died on 10 December 1837, in Backford, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 58, and was buried in Backford, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Samuel Peter, "Wales Births and Baptisms, 1541-1907"
- Marriage Record of Samuel Crofts and Margaret "Landsly".
- Samuel Croft, "England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000"
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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: variant of Croft , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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