Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Wade was born on 6 September 1782, in Dorchester, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, her father, Alexander Wade, was 20 and her mother, Mary Wade, was 20. She married Ebenezer Cole on 28 August 1810, in Westmorland, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 26 March 1876, in Dorchester, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 93, and was buried in Dorchester, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
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- Margaret Cole, "New Brunswick Census, 1861"
- Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Wade - Government record: Cemetery record or headstone: birth:
- Margaret Wade, "Canada, Marriages, 1661-1949"
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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: from the Middle English personal name Wade (Old English Wada or, via Norman French, from ancient Germanic Wado, of unclear origin but possibly related to Old English wadan ‘to go’).
English: topographic name from Middle English wade ‘ford’ (Old English (ge)wæd ‘ford, especially a tidal crossing’) for someone who lived by a ford, or a habitational name from a place so called, such as Wade Hall in North Cove (Suffolk).
Irish: shortened and altered from Mac Uaid, see McQuaid .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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