When Esther Bateman was born in 1776, in Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Abraham Bateman, was 20 and her mother, Hannah Lucas, was 38. She died in 1815, at the age of 39.
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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.
"Former slave Olaudah Equiano settled in London and published his autobiography titled ""The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano."" Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity. His autobiography is one of the oldest published works by an African-American writer."
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: from the Middle English personal name Bateman, Bat(te)man, and in the West Midlands of England Batemon, a pet form of Bate or Batte with the hypocoristic suffix -man.
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