When Robert Leng was born in November 1800, in Wilton, Yorkshire, England, his father, William Leng, was 32 and his mother, Hannah Frank, was 31. He married Elizabeth Corney on 9 February 1836, in York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Guisborough, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. He died in 1871, at the age of 71, and was buried in Guisborough, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
The original Ouse Bridge collapsed in 1154 under the weight of a crowd that was on it. In 1367, after the bridge had been replaced with stone and became the site of the first public toilets. In 1564-1565 the bridge was finally done being repaired. In 1810 and 1818 the bridge was dismantled to make way for a new Ouse Bridge design and completed in 1821.
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English: variant of Laing .
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