When Thomas Haigh was born about 1831, in Ossett, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Levi Haigh, was 44 and his mother, Mary Kippax, was 36. He married Sarah Hemingway in 1850, in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Stanley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Ossett, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891.
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Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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.
The Lendal Bridge was opened in 1863, after a previous failed attempt at building it Thomas Page was brought in to design it. It is an iron bridge styled with the gothic style popular in England. When it was first opened, it was a toll bridge but in 1894, it accepted it’s last toll.
English (mainly Yorkshire): habitational name from any of several minor places called Haigh in Yorkshire and Lancashire (from Middle English hagh ‘enclosure’, from Old English haga or Old Norse hagi), but especially that in Quarmby, between Huddersfield and Halifax.
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