When Betty Nield was born on 24 July 1782, in Shaw and Crompton, Lancashire, England, her father, William Nield, was 40 and her mother, Mary Newton, was 45. She had at least 1 daughter. She died on 3 February 1803, at the age of 20.
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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.
"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."
English (Lancashire): probably a variant of Neal or Nell , with excrescent -d.
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