When John Kirkham was born in 1851, in Paddington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Kirkham, was 28 and his mother, Anne Loveridge, was 26. He married Julia Amelia Gardner in 1883, in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 7 May 1920, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 69.
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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.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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English (mainly northwestern): habitational name from any of the places in Lancashire and East Yorkshire named Kirkham. The placenames derive from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + Old English hām ‘village, homestead’ or Old Norse heim ‘homestead, estate’.
Possibly an altered form of German Kirchham, a habitational name from either of two places called Kirchham, in Austria or Bavaria.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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