When Nancy Winterburn was christened on 29 October 1786, in Burnsall, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Winterburn, was 49 and her mother, Mary Ward, was 37. She married James Brown on 3 April 1831, in Elland, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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 defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
The original Ouse Bridge collapsed in 1154 under the weight of a crowd that was on it. In 1367, after the bridge had been replaced with stone and became the site of the first public toilets. In 1564-1565 the bridge was finally done being repaired. In 1810 and 1818 the bridge was dismantled to make way for a new Ouse Bridge design and completed in 1821.
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from any of various places called with Old English winter-burna ‘winter stream’, for a stream which only flows, or flows at a faster rate, during the winter and more or less dries up in summer, such as Winterburn in Gargrave (Yorkshire), Winterbourne (Berkshire, Gloucestershire), Winterbourne Bassett (Wiltshire), or one of thirteen parishes named Winterborne in Dorset, including Winterborne Abbas, Winterborne Monkton, and Winterborne Zelstone. In most cases, the form Winterburn can be associated with Winterburn in Gargrave (Yorkshire), though no such association can be made between other surname forms and corresponding placenames.
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