When Alfred Ashton was born on 1 March 1843, in London, England, United Kingdom, his father, Herbert Ashton, was 37 and his mother, Thurza Oxenbould, was 35. He married Ellen Didsbury on 26 December 1863, in Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Islington St Mary, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 23 June 1929, in Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand, at the age of 86, and was buried in Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium, Auckland, New Zealand.
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The New Zealand Wars, also referred to as the Land Wars. Maori put up resistance to British colonial rule.
George Jenning was the person that invented and gave us the public lavatory. It cost people a penny to use.
On May 26, 1868 the Capital Punishment Act was put into action. This made it so that public hangings no longer existed at Newgate in London.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called, especially Ashton-under-Lyne near Manchester. Most are named from Old English æsc ‘ash tree’ + tūn ‘settlement’; the one in Northamptonshire is (æt thǣm) æscum ‘(at the) ash trees’. Others have been assimilated to this from different sources. The one in Devon is ‘the settlement (tūn) of Æschere’, while the one in Hertfordshire is ‘the settlement of Ælli’.
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