Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Lane was born about 1781, in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Francis Lane, was 30 and her mother, Martha Sly, was 30. She married Thomas Wilshire on 15 April 1800.
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- Sarah Lane, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Sarah Lane in entry for Thomas Willshere, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- Sarah Lane in entry for Thomas Willshere, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
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World Events (8)
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: topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, from Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin ‘descendant of Laighean’, a byname meaning ‘spear or javelin’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of Luan’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan. See also Lamb .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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