When John Oke was born about 1770, in Bradworthy, Devon, England, United Kingdom, his father, Hugh Oke, was 29 and his mother, Ann Badcock, was 21. He married Elizabeth Shaddick on 13 May 1802, in Bradworthy, Devon, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died in 1840, at the age of 71.
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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.
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.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
English (Devon and Cornwall): variant of Oak .
West African (Nigeria): Igbo name, from a short form of a personal name like Okechukwu . See also 3 below, compare Okey .
West African (Nigeria and Benin): unexplained. See also 2 above.
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