Brief Life History of George Augustus
When George Augustus Anson was born in 1802, his father, General Sir George Anson, was 33 and his mother, Frances Hamilton, was 28. He married Lady Barbara Ainslie Park on 4 December 1823, in Madeira, Portugal. He died on 10 May 1829, in Madeira, Portugal, at the age of 27.
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- Augustus George Anson, Lieut, "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices"
- Augustus George Anson, "England, Somerset, Church Records, 1501-1999"
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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.
1822
Brazil declares independence.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Yorkshire and Lancashire): variant of Hanson with loss of initial H-.
Spanish: habitational name from the town of Ansó in Aragon.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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