When Emma Bray was born on 27 December 1818, in Shephall, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Daniel Bray, was 31 and her mother, Mary Armer Overell, was 32. She died on 21 December 1833, in Shephall, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 14, and was buried in Shephall, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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.
English: habitational name from any of the places in Berkshire and Devon. The former is probably named with Old French bray ‘marsh’, the latter from the Cornish element bre ‘hill’.
English: perhaps a topographic name from northern Middle English bra ‘steep (river) bank’ or ‘brow of a hill’, denoting someone who lived at such a place.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of several places in Normandy or Picardy called Bray (Eure, Calvados, Aisne, Somme); see 6.
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