When Charlotte Linford was born about 1813, in Hartford, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Linford, was 42 and her mother, Elizabeth Bell, was 43. She married William Young on 3 December 1832, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in St Mary's Church, Orton Waterville, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861.
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The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
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.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
English: habitational name from Great and Little Linford in Buckinghamshire or Lynford in Norfolk. The former may have Old English hlyn ‘maple’ as its first element; the latter is more likely to contain līn ‘flax’, or alternatively the first element may relate to the river Lynn. The second element in each case is Old English ford ‘ford’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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