Brief Life History of John
When John Corney was born from 1803 to 1804, in Cartmel, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Corney, was 33 and his mother, Eleanor Yates, was 28. He married Elizabeth Greenwood on 11 October 1834, in Dent, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Sedbergh, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. He died on 9 November 1860, in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, and was buried in Dent, Yorkshire, England.
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- John Corney, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- John Corney, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- John Corney in entry for John William Corney, "England, Cumbria Parish Registers, 1538-1990"
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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.
1821 · New Ouse Bridge Completed
The original Ouse Bridge collapsed in 1154 under the weight of a crowd that was on it. In 1367, after the bridge had been replaced with stone and became the site of the first public toilets. In 1564-1565 the bridge was finally done being repaired. In 1810 and 1818 the bridge was dismantled to make way for a new Ouse Bridge design and completed in 1821.
Name Meaning
habitational name from Corney in Cumbria or Corney in Hertfordshire (now known as Corneybury), from Old English corn ‘grain’ or corn, a metathesized form of cron, cran ‘crane’ + ēg ‘island’. It seems possible, from the distribution of early forms, that it may also derive from a lost place in Lancashire. Alternatively, a habitational name from Corney (Lancashire), later named Corneyrow, now Corner Row or Cornoe in Greenhalgh (alias Greenall), in the parish of Kirkham. Corney was sometimes pronounced and spelled Cornah, Corner, Cornall, Gorney, and Gornall.
perhaps a shortened form of Cornwall or Cornish , or a metathesized form of Croney .
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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