When Ann Appleby was born in 1765, in Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Appleby, was 34 and her mother, Mary Smith, was 28. She married Edward Shotton on 10 May 1788, in Stamfordham, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She was buried in Tynemouth, Northumberland, 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 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.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
English (northern): habitational name from any of various places, for example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Cumbria, named from Old English æppel or Old Norse epli ‘apple’ + Old Norse bȳ ‘farm’.
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