Brief Life History of John Blaxland
John Blaxland Cobb was christened on 26 March 1805, in Faversham, Kent, England, United Kingdom as the son of Henry Cobb and Elizabeth Blaxland.
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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.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish (Angus): from the Middle English byname or personal name Cobbe, Cobba, or its Old Norse cognate Kobbi, which are probably from an element meaning ‘lump’, used to denote a large man.
Irish: shortened form of McCobb , a patronymic from the personal name Hob, an English pet form of Robert .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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