Brief Life History of Susannah Holmes
When Susannah Holmes Squire was born in September 1802, in St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Squire, was 34 and her mother, Mary Brown, was 28. She married John Maile in 1820.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Susannah Holmes Squire - Church record: birth: September 1802; Saint Neots, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom
- Legacy NFS Source: Susannah Holmes Squire - Church record: christening: 24 May 1803; Saint Neots, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom
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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.
1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor
The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.
Name Meaning
English: status name, occupational name, or a nickname from Middle English squyer, squer, skier, sker, northern Middle English swire (Old French escuyer, escuier) ‘shield bearer, esquire, personal attendant to a knight; landowner below the rank of knight; young man of gentle birth; household attendant, retainer, page, messenger’. Many early bearers of this name were of modest means and cannot have been members of the gentry; in such cases the name may have been used hyperbolically for a low-ranking servant or as a nickname. By the 17th century, the term denoted any member of the landed gentry, but this is unlikely to have influenced the development of the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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