When Edgar Rushton was born about March 1881, in Newton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Rushton, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Cowking, was 32. He died on 11 June 1930, in Newton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 49.
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The East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a group of volunteers in a unit of Britian's Royal Engineers. They were started in Manchester in 1901. They fought on the western front during WWI and were part of the Dunkirk Evacuation during WWII.
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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’.
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