When Joseph Merrin was born in 1865, in Spondon, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Charles Merrin, was 23 and his mother, Ann Sims, was 23.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
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 (East Midlands): habitational name from Mareham on the Hill (Lincolnshire) or from Meering (Nottinghamshire). The placenames mean ‘(settlement of) the dwellers by the pond(s) or pool(s)’, from Old English mere, mær ‘pond, pool’ + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas.
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