When George Dyer was born about 1819, in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England, his father, Thomas Dyer, was 28 and his mother, Mary Osborne, was 30. He married Phoebe Roe on 13 September 1845, in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom. He lived in Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881. He died in May 1883, in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, at the age of 65, and was buried in Foster Hill Road Cemetery, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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.
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English: occupational name for a dyer of cloth, from Middle English deier, degher ‘dyer’ (Old English dēag ‘dye’; the verb is a back-formation from the agent noun). Compare Dexter . The name is typical of southern England. In the Midlands Dexter is the more common equivalent and in northern England Lister .
Irish (Sligo and Antrim): variant of Dwyer .
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