Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Bower was born in 1824, his father, Edward Bower, was 46 and his mother, Sarah Holland, was 38. He married Martha Paxman on 3 April 1856, in St George Hanover Square, London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Tottenham, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Battersea, Surrey, England in 1891. In 1891, at the age of 67, his occupation is listed as dealer in oil in Battersea, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. He died in 1892, in Battersea, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 68.
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- Samuel Bower, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Samuel Bower, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Legacy NFS Source: Samuel Bower - death: 1892; Battersea, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
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1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor
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.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English bour, bor(e), bur(e) (Old English būr) ‘cottage, chamber, bower’, denoting either a ‘cottager’ or ‘chamber-servant’, or a topographic name for someone who lived in a small cottage, or a habitational name from any of various minor places called from this word in Somerset, Sussex, Essex, and Peeblesshire. Compare Bowerman and Bowring .
English: variant of Bowyer , for a maker or seller of bows or an archer, from Middle English bowyere, an agent derivative of Old English boga ‘bow’.
Americanized form of German Bauer ‘peasant’ or ‘neighbor, fellow citizen’, or of its Dutch cognate Bouwer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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