When Thomas Davies was born in 1846, in Little Hulton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edward Davies, was 39 and his mother, Ann Bridge, was 34. He married Hannah Bradshaw on 19 June 1869, in Deane, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter.
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Like the iron and copper mines, the coal fields in South Wales were very important to the industrial revolution. Many of those that worked in the coal mines were part of the Merthyr uprising.
When the Industrial Revolution hit Lancashire, cotton mills started spring up everywhere. This helped the cotton industry to start booming even moreso in Lancashire.
The Bacup Natural History Society was established in 1878 in Lancashire. It holds a collection of over 4,000 photos, slides, and documents. It holds many different artifacts from military to fossils.
Welsh and English: variant of Davis , a patronymic equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd ‘Dafydd's son’. The name is especially numerous in south Wales. This form of the name probably shows the influence of Davy , the common English form of the personal name David in the late medieval and early modern periods (see Davey ).
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