Brief Life History of John
When John Glanville was born in 1782, in Wedmore, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Glanville, was 34 and his mother, Grace Barrow, was 33. He married Ann Hawkins on 10 October 1808, in St Mary's Church, Wedmore, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died in May 1855, in Wedmore, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 73, and was buried in Wedmore, Somerset, England, United Kingdom.
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- John Glanvil, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- John Glanvile, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- John Glanvile, "Find A Grave Index"
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1787 · English Convicts Sail to Australia
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.
1789 · The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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.
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.
Name Meaning
English (Cornwall and Devon): of Norman origin, a habitational name from a place so called in Calvados, France, named from an ancient Germanic personal name of uncertain form and meaning + Old French ville ‘settlement’. This name has frequently been confused with Glanfield, a habitational name from Glanvill Farm in Devon, Clanville in Somerset and Hampshire, or Clanfield in Hampshire, or from some other place likewise named with Old English clǣne ‘clean’ (i.e. free of brambles and undergrowth) + feld ‘pasture, open country’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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