Brief Life History of Samuel
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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- Samuel Rayner, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Samuel Rayner, "England, Nottinghamshire, Church Records, 1578-1937"
- IGI Extracted b./chr. for: Parish register printouts of Papplewick, Nottingham,
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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.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Name Meaning
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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