Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Barrow was christened on 8 July 1804, in Bolton le Moors St Peter, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Barrow, was 41 and her mother, Agnes Holden, was 35.
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- Margaret Barrow, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Marg'T Barrow, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Marg'T Barrow, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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World Events (8)
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1825 · Museum of Lancashire
The Museum of Lancashire is located in the former courthouse of Preston in Lancashire, England. The building was designed by Thomas Rickman. Some the exhibits include Lancashire through the years, at work, at play, goes to war, and law and order. All depict different times and events in Lancashire county. The museum closed in 2015 and is now only opened for scheduled appointments.
1842 · Mines and Collieries Act of 1842
The Parliment of the United Kingdom passed the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842, mostly commonly known as the Mines Act of 1842. This act made it so that nobody under the age of ten could work in the mines and also females in general could not be employed.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bearo, bearu ‘grove’ (dative bear(o)we, bearuwe) or Old English beorg, dative beorge (Middle English berwe, barwe) ‘mound, tumulus’, for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Shropshire, Suffolk, and Somerset, or a topographic name with the same meaning.
habitational name from Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, which is named with an unattested Celtic word, barr, here meaning ‘promontory’, + Old Norse ey ‘island’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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