When Ann Rushton was born about 1847, in Newton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Rushton, was 46 and her mother, Jane "Jenny" Robinson, was 38. She married John Alston in 1868, in Bakewell, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Darley, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She died in 1895, in Slaidburn, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 49.
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When the Industrial Revolution hit Lancashire, cotton mills started spring up everywhere. This helped the cotton industry to start booming even moreso in Lancashire.
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The Bacup Natural History Society was established in 1878 in Lancashire. It holds a collection of over 4,000 photos, slides, and documents. It holds many different artifacts from military to fossils.
English: habitational name from Rishton (Lancashire) and Rushton (Staffordshire), and perhaps also from Rushton (Cheshire, Northamptonshire), Rushton in East Stoke (Dorset), and Rhiston (Shropshire). The placenames derive from Old English risc ‘rush’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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