When Thomas Taylor was born on 14 August 1832, in Runcorn, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Taylor, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Betty Shaw, was 34. He married Martha Helsby on 9 July 1854, in Warrington, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 22 May 1865, in Runcorn, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 32.
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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.
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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.
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
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