When Samuel Rayner was christened on 2 April 1803, in Papplewick, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Henry Rayner, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Low, was 39.
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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.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
English: variant of Raynor .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from an inflected form of German rein or central Yiddish rayn ‘pure’.
Altered form of German Reiner .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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