Robert Sands 1770–? - Our Families

Robert Sands1770–?

Name: Robert Sands

Given names: Robert

Surname: Sands

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Birth	Yes
Baptism	before 1770 Kent, England
Birth of a son #1	son - Robert Sands
Birth of a son #2	son - William Sands
Birth of a daughter #3	daughter - Sarah Sands
History	1771 Note: Arkwright's first spinning mill.
History	1773 Note: Boston Tea Party.
History	1775 Note: American Revolution begins.<br />Watt's first efficient steam engine.
History	1776 Note: American colonies declare their independence.
History	1779 Note: First steam powered mills. Crompton invents spinning mule.
History	1781 Note: Cornwallis surrenders to Washington at Yorktown, Va.
History	1783 Note: Peace treaty signed in Paris between Great Britain and the United States.
Marriage	Eleanor Thomas - View family 13 June 1784 Hadlow, Kent, England
History	1785 Note: Cartwright builds power loom.
History	1786 Note: Coal gas first used for lighting.
Baptism of a son	26 October 1788 East Peckham, Kent, England son - Robert Sands
History	1789 Note: Bastille falls, French Revolution begins.
History	1793 Note: Louis XVI executed in France. England and France at war.
Birth of a son #4	before 13 April 1794 East Peckham, Kent, England son - John Sands
Baptism of a son	13 April 1794 East Peckham, Kent, England son - John Sands
History	1798 Note: Battle of the Nile.
History	1799 Note: Napoleon named First Consul of France.
History	1801 Note: Union of Great Britain and Ireland.
Baptism of a son	6 December 1801 East Peckham, Kent, England son - William Sands
History	1804 Note: Napoleon declared Emperor.
History	1805 Note: Battle of Trafalgar.
Baptism of a daughter	20 July 1806 East Peckham, Kent, England daughter - Sarah Sands
History	1809 Note: Napoleon captures Vienna.
History	1811 Note: Prince of Wales named Regent to act for George III, now insane.<br />Luddite riots in the North and the Midlands. Laborers attack factories and break up the machines which they fear will replace them.
History	1812 Note: Napoleon invades Russia.<br />War of 1812 between England and the United States.
History	1814 Note: Treaty of Ghent ends Anglo-U.S. War.<br />England and allies invade France.<br />Napoleon exiled to Elba.
History	1815 Note: Napoleon escapes Elba, begins the Hundred Days.<br />Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon exiled to St. Helena in the South Atlantic.<br />Corn Laws passed.
Marriage of a son	John Sands - View family 12 April 1819 East Peckham, Kent, England son - John Sands daughter-in-law - Mary Hollands
History	1819 Note: Peterloo Massacre of Corn Law protestors.
History	1820 Note: George IV succeeds George III on his death
History	1821 Note: Napoleon dies.
History	1829 Note: Peel establishes the Metropolitan Police.
History	1830 Note: George IV dies, his brother William IV succeeds.<br />Manchester - Liverpool Railway (first in England).
History	1832 Note: First Reform Bill: adds 10 pound/year householders to the voting rolls and reapportions Parliamentary representation much more fairly, doing away with most rotten and pocket boroughs. Adds 217,000 voters to an electorate of 435,000.
History	1833 Note: Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire.<br />Factory Act.
History	1834 Note: New Poor Law.<br />Houses of Parliament burn down.
History	1837 Note: William IV dies, succeeded by his niece, Victoria.
History	1838 Note: Regular Atlantic steamship service begins.
History	1839 Note: Anti-Corn-Law League founded.
History	1840 Note: Queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert, who becomes Prince Consort.<br />Penny post started.<br />S.F.B. Morse invents the telegraph.<br />Grammar Schools Act.
History	1842 Note: Chartist Riots.<br />Copyright Act.<br />Potato Failure in Europe, starvation in Ireland. Corn Laws (which had kept up the price of grain) repealed.
History	1849 Note: Gold discovered in California and Australia.
History	1850 Note: Telegraph cable laid under English Channel.
History	1851 Note: Great Exhibition (Crystal Palace).
History	1853 Note: Crimean War.
History	1855 Note: Livingston discovers Victoria Falls.
History	1857 Note: The Mutiny (India).
History	1858 Note: First Atlantic cable laid.
History	1861 Note: Albert dies, Victoria retires into mourning.<br />American Civil War.
History	1862 Note: Bismarck becomes Prussian premier.
History	1864 Note: Geneva Convention establishes Red Cross.
History	1867 Note: Telegraph cable laid under the Atlantic.<br />Second Reform Bill: enfranchises many workingmen, adds 938,000 to an electorate of 1,057,000 in England and Wales. (Disraeli's legislation)
History	1869 Note: Suez Canal opened.
History	1869 Note: Union Pacific Railway completed in U.S.
History	1870 Note: Forster's Elementary Education Act establishes School Boards.<br />Franco-Prussian War.
History	1871 Note: Trade unions legalised.<br />Newcastle engineers strike for a nine-hour day.<br />Germany unified.
History	1876 Note: Victoria named Empress of India.<br />Edison invents the phonograph.<br />Compulsory school attendance in Great Britain.
History	1877 Note: Transvaal annexed.
History	1879 Note: Zulu war.
History	1880 Note: War with Transvaal.
History	1882 Note: Married Women's Property Act enables women to buy, own, and sell property, and to keep their own earnings.
History	1883 Note: Mahdi Rebellion in the Sudan.
History	1884 Note: Third Reform Act and Redistribution Act extend vote to agricultural workers, electorate tripled.
Death of a son	between July 1885 and September 1885 East Peckham, Kent, England son - John Sands
History	1885 Note: Fall of Khartoum.
History	1886 Note: First (Irish) Home Rule bill rejected.
History	1887 Note: Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
History	1889 Note: London dock workers and match girls strike for 6d./hour.
Death	Yes

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himself	Robert Sands Baptism before 1770 Kent, England Death Yes Loading...
-8 years wife	Eleanor Thomas Birth before 19 July 1761 Hadlow, Kent, England Death Yes Loading...
	Marriage: 13 June 1784 — Hadlow, Kent, England
4 years #1 son	Robert Sands Baptism 26 October 1788 18 27 East Peckham, Kent, England Death Yes Loading...
6 years #2 son	John Sands Birth before 13 April 1794 24 32 East Peckham, Kent, England Death between July 1885 and September 1885 Age: 91 East Peckham, Kent, England Loading...
8 years #3 son	William Sands Baptism 6 December 1801 31 40 East Peckham, Kent, England Death Yes Loading...
5 years #4 daughter	Sarah Sands Baptism 20 July 1806 36 45 East Peckham, Kent, England Death Yes Loading...