Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Wardle was born in 1759, in Derbyshire, England, his father, Isaac Wardle, was 36 and his mother, Sarah Hallam, was 31. He married Elizabeth Carr on 2 August 1787, in Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Paul, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. He died before 15 May 1816, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, and was buried in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Joseph Wardle, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Joseph Wardle, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- death entry
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1770 · Boston Tea Party
Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
1775 · The Shot Heard Around the World
On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the "shot heard around the world" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England.
1787 · English Convicts Sail to Australia
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.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from Wardle in Lancashire and possibly Wardle in Cheshire, both named with Old English weard-hyll ‘watch hill’. Compare Warden 2 and Wardlaw .
habitational name from Weardale (Durham), which takes its name from the river Wear (related to the Indo-European root wis-, weis- ‘liquid, flow’ or wedōr- ‘water’) + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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