Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Newton was born on 2 May 1794, in Denton, Lancashire, England, her father, James Newton, was 37 and her mother, Jane Rowland, was 35. She married Charles Booth on 24 May 1813, in Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Over, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1820. She died in March 1860, in Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 65.
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- Mary Newton, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975" (1794)
- Mary Turner, "England, Cheshire, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1606-1900"
- England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915
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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 and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places in England and Scotland so named, from Old English nīwe ‘new’ + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’, or Middle English neue ‘new’ + toun ‘settlement, town’. According to Ekwall, this is the commonest English placename. For this reason, the surname has a highly fragmented origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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