When Gertrude Chadwick Hepworth was born on 5 February 1882, in Earlsheaton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Benjamin George Hepworth, was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann Haley, was 27. She married Bertie Colbeck on 8 August 1905, in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Soothill, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891 and Hanging Heaton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901. She died in 1966, in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 84.
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Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
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During WWI Zeppelin raids took place all over England. The first of the raids happened from June 6-7, 1915, in Hull, East Yorkshire, England. During the attack 24 people were killed 40 injured, and 40 houses destroyed.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name primarily from Hepworth (Yorkshire) or, less likely, from the place so named in Suffolk. The Yorkshire placename derives from an Old English personal name Heppa + Old English worth ‘enclosure’, while the Suffolk placename comes from Old English hēope ‘rose hip’ or hēopa ‘dog rose, bramble’ + worth.
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