Eliza Tottingham was born in 1833, in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom as the daughter of Unnamed and Ann Tottingham. She lived in Standon, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841.
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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.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
English: habitational name from the city of Nottingham in the East Midlands. The placename means ‘the homestead of the people of Snot’, from the Old English personal name Snot + the groupname suffix -ingas (genitive -inga-) + hām ‘village, homestead’. The initial S- was lost in the 12th century, due to the influence of Anglo-Norman French (the combination sn- is alien to French).
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