When Job Dodwell was born in 1823, in Stoke Orchard, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Robert Dodwell, was 45 and his mother, Martha Billingham, was 43. He married Phebe Ricketts on 23 October 1860, in Frampton on Severn, Gloucestershire, England. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Pyle, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1881. He died in 1892, in Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 69.
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The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.
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English: habitational name from Dodwell in Warwickshire, which was named in Old English as ‘the spring or stream of a man called Dodda’.
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