Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane Starley was born on 14 August 1803, in Cowfold, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Starley, was 47 and her mother, Martha Batchelor, was 39. She married William Huff about 1823, in Cowfold, Sussex, England, United Kingdom.
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- Jane Ruff in the 1851 England Census
- Jane Starley, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Jane Staley, "England, Sussex, Parish Registers, 1538-1910"
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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.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Name Meaning
English (Sussex): possibly a nickname from an unrecorded Middle English adjective stereli, derived from stere ‘strong, hardy, powerful, steadfast’, like sickly from sick. Alternatively, it may be a habitational name, perhaps from Startley in Great Somerford (Wiltshire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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