When Annie Doxey was born in March 1871, in Middleton by Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Doxey, was 29 and her mother, Edith Sheldon, was 23. She married William Thomas Ellis on 17 September 1893, in Middleton by Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. She lived in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
English (Derbyshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Doxey in Seighford, Staffordshire, named in the Domesday Book as Dochesig, from an unrecorded Old English personal name Docc + Old English ēg ‘island, or piece of dry ground in a marsh’.
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