Brief Life History of Leah Hannah
When Leah Hannah Hadley was born about 1779, her father, Edward Hadley, was 37 and her mother, Elizabeth Smart, was 35. She married John Rolinson on 25 December 1799, in Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters.
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- Leayhannah Hadley (name incorrectly indexed), "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Leah Hadley, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Leah in entry for Sarah Rolinson, "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991"
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World Events (8)
1801 · The Act of Union
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.
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.
Name Meaning
English (mainly West Midlands): habitational name from either of three places called Hadley, in Worcestershire and Shropshire, or from either of two places called Hadleigh, in Essex and Suffolk, or Monken Hadley in Middlesex. The first is named from the Old English personal name Hadda + lēah ‘wood, (woodland) clearing’; the others are from Old English hǣth ‘heathland, heather’ + lēah.
In some cases also Native American (Navajo): variant of Hatathlie ‘singer (i.e. medicine man)’. Compare Singer 5.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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