When Ann Burrows was born on 4 August 1806, in Long Bennington, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Valentine Burrows, was 26 and her mother, Elizabeth Hall, was 33. She married William Parker on 3 March 1829, in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Goderich, Huron, Ontario, Canada in 1861 and Goderich Township, Huron, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 7 May 1881, in Huron, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 74.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
English:
variant of Burrow , with excrescent -s.
(mainly Sheffield): occasionally also a topographic name or occupational name for someone who lived or worked at a house with a chamber for conducting manorial business (Middle English bour, Old English būr ‘bower, chamber’, + hous ‘house’). Compare Burroughs and Burris .
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