Brief Life History of Robert Joslin
When Robert Joslin Rowland was born on 19 July 1797, in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Rowland, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth Joslyn, was 26. He registered for military service in 1837. He died on 19 September 1842, in Islamabad, Pakistan, at the age of 45.
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- Robert Joslin Rowland, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Robert Joslin Rowland, "England, Lincolnshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1990"
- England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
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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: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Rollant, Rolant, Rolent, Roulent (ancient Germanic Hrodland, Rodland, from hrōd ‘glory’ + land ‘land’), introduced into England by the Normans. It was made famous by French romances about Roland, the most famous of the peers of Charlemagne who was killed at Roncesvalles in AD 778. Although widely used across post-Conquest England (along with Oliver, the name of Roland's companion), it seems to have been restricted to particular gentry families and was never popular. Compare Roland .
English: habitational name from Rowland (Derbyshire) or Rowland Wood in Slinfold (Sussex). The Derbyshire placename derives from Old Norse rá ‘roe, roe buck’ or rá ‘land mark, boundary’ + lúndr ‘small wood, grove’. The Sussex placename probably derives from Middle English roughe ‘rough’ + lond ‘land’ (Old English rūh, land).
English: in northern England and perhaps elsewhere, perhaps a post-medieval variant of Rawling . Compare Rawlinson , Rollinson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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