When Maria Grover was born in 1831, in Burghfield, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Grover, was 39 and her mother, Maria Chamberlain, was 36. She married Joseph Hobbs on 16 June 1863, in Burghfield, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Reading, Berkshire, England in 1851.
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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.
Some characteristic forenames: Indian Rakesh, Raj, Rajiv, Sanjay, Subhash, Vijay, Amrit, Atul, Harish, Naveen, Rashmi, Sunil.
North German: occupational name for a ditch or grave digger, from Middle Low German grove ‘hollow, grave’.
Americanized form of German and Swiss German Gruber .
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