When Patience Bradbury was born on 9 January 1816, in Hyde, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Randle Bradbury, was 33 and her mother, Margaret Bowker, was 31. She died in 1842, in Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 26, and was buried in Hyde, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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, usually from Bredbury (Cheshire), occasionally perhaps from Bradbury (Durham), although evidence for the latter origin is yet to be found. Both placenames meant ‘stronghold or manor house built with planks’, from Old English bred ‘board’ + burg in the dative case form byrig.
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