When Ann Wanmer was born on 27 May 1788, in Pembury, Kent, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Wanmer, was 29 and her mother, Mary Ann Sayers, was 29. She married William H Taylor in 1818, in Lancashire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Leicester St Margaret, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She died on 25 December 1859, at the age of 71, and was buried in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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"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.
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.
German: occupational name for a builder, one who built walls, from an agent derivative of Middle High German want ‘wall’ (from Old High German wenten ‘to wind or weave’; the earliest domestic walls were of wattle and daub construction, made from woven hurdles packed with clay).
German: occupational name for a maker or seller of cloth, from an agent derivative of a shortened form of Middle High German gewant ‘cloth, garment’ (from Old High German giwant, likewise a derivative of wenten ‘to weave’).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Wanderer , a nickname from Yiddish vandern ‘to wander or hike’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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