Brief Life History of Helen
When Helen Catt was born about 1823, in Ore, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, her father, Jesse Catt, was 39 and her mother, Mary Furner, was 32. She married Aaron Foord in June 1846, in Hastings, Sussex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died in December 1876, in Hastings, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 54.
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Sources (5)
- Ellen Catt in household of Mary Catt, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Aaron Foord in the England
- Ellen Foord, "England and Wales Census, 1871"
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Children (7)
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World Events (4)
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor
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.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Name Meaning
English (Sussex and Kent): nickname from Middle English c(h)at ‘cat’ (Old English catt, Norman and Picard Old French cat, Parisian Old French chat). The word is found in similar forms in most European languages from very early times (e.g. Gaelic cath, Old Slavic kotъ). Domestic cats were unknown in Europe in classical times, when weasels fulfilled many of their functions, for example in hunting rodents. They seem to have come from Egypt, where they were regarded as sacred animals.
English: occasionally, perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English female personal name Cat, a pet form of Catelin ‘Catherine’. See Catlin . Alternatively, perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Cat(te) or Chat(te), a survival of Old C(e)atta, which is well attested in placenames.
Americanized form of North German Katt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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