When Elizabeth Butterworth was born in 1826, in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Butterworth, was 42 and her mother, Martha Holt, was 30. She lived in Oldham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1841.
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The Parliment of the United Kingdom passed the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842, mostly commonly known as the Mines Act of 1842. This act made it so that nobody under the age of ten could work in the mines and also females in general could not be employed.
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.
English: from Butterworth in Lancashire (near Rochdale). Named with Old English butere ‘butter’ + worth ‘enclosure’.
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