When Nancy Ellen Darlington was born in September 1897, in Radcliffe, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Darlington, was 27 and her mother, Emma Gregory, was 30. She lived in Kearsley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She died in 1978, in Bolton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 81.
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The East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a group of volunteers in a unit of Britian's Royal Engineers. They were started in Manchester in 1901. They fought on the western front during WWI and were part of the Dunkirk Evacuation during WWII.
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
British unemployment reached a post-war high in July 1921 of 2.5 million people.
English: habitational name from Darlington in County Durham, recorded in c. 1040 as Dearthingtun, from Old English Dēornōthingtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Dēornōth’, a personal name composed of the elements dēor ‘dear’ + nōth ‘daring’. The surname was present in Scotland from an early period.
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