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Shrigley abduction

Index Shrigley abduction

The Shrigley abduction was an 1826 British case of a forced marriage by Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the 15-year-old heiress Ellen Turner of Pott Shrigley. [1]

12 relations: Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Felix Wakefield, Gretna Green, List of women who died in childbirth, March 7, Marriage in Scotland, New Zealand Company, Shrigley, William Turner (Blackburn MP), William Wakefield, 1827, 1827 in the United Kingdom.

Edward Gibbon Wakefield

Edward Gibbon Wakefield (20 March 1796 – 16 May 1862) is considered a key figure in the early colonisation of South Australia and New Zealand.

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Felix Wakefield

Felix Wakefield (30 November 1807 – 23 December 1875) was an English colonist.

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Gretna Green

Gretna Green is a village in the south of Scotland famous for runaway weddings.

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List of women who died in childbirth

This is a list of notable women, either famous themselves or closely associated with someone well known, who suffered maternal death as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO): Note that this wording includes abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth, and ectopic pregnancy.

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March 7

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Marriage in Scotland

Marriage in Scotland is recognised in the form of both civil and religious unions between individuals.

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New Zealand Company

The New Zealand Company was a 19th-century English company that played a key role in the colonisation of New Zealand.

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Shrigley

Shrigley may refer to:;Places.

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William Turner (Blackburn MP)

William Turner (1777 – 17 July 1842) was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1841.

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William Wakefield

William Hayward Wakefield (1801 - 19 September 1848) was an English colonel, the leader of the first colonising expedition to New Zealand and one of the founders of Wellington.

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1827

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1827 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1827 in the United Kingdom.

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Ellen Turner, Shrigley Abduction.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrigley_abduction

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