Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Withers was born in 1793, in Backbarrow, Lancashire, England, her father, Michael Witter, was 26 and her mother, Sarah Nealson, was 22. She married William Middlefell on 6 September 1813, in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died in June 1834, in Salford, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 41, and was buried in Salford, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Mary Witters, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Death Record for Mary Middlefell, England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1936
- Mary Witters in entry for William Middlefell, "England, Cumbria Parish Registers, 1538-1990"
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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: variant of Wither , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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