When Frances Weller was born in 1845, in Teynham, Kent, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Weller, was 38 and her mother, Mary Ann Hammon, was 28. She had at least 2 sons and 3 daughters with Albert Knowlden. She lived in Street, Kent, England, United Kingdom in 1871 and Harrietsham, Kent, England, United Kingdom in 1881. She died on 29 June 1884, in Kent, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 39.
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The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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English (Surrey, Sussex, and Kent): topographic name for someone who lived by a spring, stream, or man-made well, from Middle English weller, willer, an agent derivative of Middle English welle (in southern England) and wille (in south western England), from Old English wella, well(e), wiella, wielle, willa, wyll(a), wylle. This type of name, a topographic term + -er, is particularly typical of Sussex and its neigbouring counties.
English: occupational name for someone who casts metal or who boils salt, from Middle English weller, willer, a derivative with -er of Old English wellan, wiellan ‘to boil’. Compare 5 below.
North German: variant of Welle , cognate with 1 above.
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