When Abijah Martin was born on 27 December 1827, in Blewbury, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Francis Martin, was 37 and his mother, Hannah Beesley, was 29. He married Lucy Smith in July 1849, in Reading, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Berkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Reading, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. In 1851, at the age of 24, his occupation is listed as master tailor in Reading, Berkshire, England. He died on 16 January 1901, at the age of 73, and was buried in Reading, Berkshire, 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, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.
English: variant of Marton .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.
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