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Personal data Captain Alexander Cosby 


Household of Captain Alexander Cosby

(1) He is married to Ann Shorthose.

They got married on November 11, 1740 at Saint Anne Soho,Westminster,London,England, he was 25 years old.


(2) He had a relationship with Sarah Commings.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Alexander Cosby

Alexander Cosby
1639-1694
Elizabeth Le'Strange
± 1640-1692
Edward Montagu
1654-< 1715
Elizabeth Pelham
1660-1723
William Cosby
1690-1736
Grace Montagu
1687-1767

Alexander Cosby
1715-1759

(1) 1740

Ann Shorthose
1721-????

(2) 

Sarah Commings
± 1717-????


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Historical events

Day of marriage November 11, 1740

  • The temperature on November 11, 1740 was about 7.0 °C. There was 88 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: regen hagel. Source: KNMI
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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1740: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
    • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
    • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
    • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
    • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
    • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

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