When Elizabeth Round was born in 1780, her father, Samuel Round, was 31 and her mother, Hannah Sivitor, was 28. She died in 1806, at the age of 26, and was buried in Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
"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.
English (Worcestershire and Staffordshire): nickname for a plump person, from Middle English round(e) (Old French rond) ‘rotund, plump’ (from Latin rotundus).
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