Brief Life History of Walter Long
When Walter Long Robbins was born in September 1785, in Bristol, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Robins, was 41 and his mother, Anne Tugwell, was 37. He married Sarah Alway on 9 November 1826, in St Florence, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in London, Canada West, British Colonial America in 1851 and West Nissouri Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada in 1861. He died on 4 October 1877, in Lobo Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 92.
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- Walter Robins in household of Tugwell Robins, "Canada Census, 1871"
- 1785 Walter Long Robins, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- 1877 Walter Long Robins, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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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: variant of Robin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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