Brief Life History of Ann
When Ann Law was born on 27 November 1801, in Burnley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Charles Lew, was 25 and her mother, Ann Holland, was 25. She married Ambrose Greenwood on 20 February 1826, in Burnley St Peter, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Whalley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Habergham Eaves, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She died on 8 February 1872, in Burnley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 70, and was buried in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Ann Starkie in household of Samuel Stuttard, "England and Wales Census, 1871"
- Ann Law, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- 1832 marriage, Bishop's transcripts for Burnley
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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.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: from a Middle English personal name Law(e), a short form of Lawrence .
Scottish and northern English: topographic name for someone who lived near a hill, northern Middle English law (from Old English hlāw, which generally became low in the south and law in the north). Compare Lowe and Lew .
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 羅, based on its Cantonese pronunciation, see Luo 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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