When Matilda Sunderland was born in 1315, in England, United Kingdom, her father, John Sunderland, was 28 and her mother, Mrs Sunderland, was 29. She married Thomas Davenport in 1343, in Davenport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. She died after 1356.
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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 defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
English: habitational name primarily from High Sunderland in Northowram, Halifax (Yorkshire), but occasionally from other places so called, for example in Durham, Cumberland, Lancashire, and Northumberland. The placenames derive from Old English sundor-land ‘land set apart for some special purpose, private land, detached land’ (sundor ‘asunder, apart’ + land ‘land’). Compare Sunderlin .
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