When Margaret Brindle was born in 1852, in Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Brindle, was 36 and her mother, Sarah Ann Talbot, was 37. She married William Atherton on 4 March 1874, in Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Culcheth, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1891 and Leigh, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years.
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The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
The Lancashire Rifle Volunteers started in the eighteenth century. Those that fought in the militia were selected by ballot. They were formed because of threat due to the Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War.
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English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place in Lancashire named Brindle, from Old English burna ‘stream’ + hyll ‘hill’.
South German: rare variant of Brindl or Bründl (and, in North America, also an altered form of these), a topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or stream, from a Bavarian diminutive of Middle High German brun(ne) ‘spring, stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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