When Robert Howarth was born about 1836, in Hyde, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Haworth, was 23 and his mother, Mary Taylor, was 28. He married Mary Ann on 29 May 1859, in Charlesworth, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. He lived in Newton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Newton, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881. He died after 1861.
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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.
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English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Howarth in Rochdale (Lancashire), possibly from Old English hōh ‘heel, spur of land’ + worth ‘enclosure’. The name may have been confused with Haworth .
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