When Amy Byron was born in 1823, in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Greensmith Byron, was 24 and her mother, Miriam Huddleston, was 28. She married George Burton about 1848, in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Nottingham St Nicholas, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada in 1871. She died on 16 July 1884, in Lambton, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 61, and was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada.
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Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
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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English: habitational name from Byram (Yorkshire), named with Old English bȳrum ‘at the cattle sheds’, dative plural of bȳre ‘byre’. This name has occasionally been adopted as a Jewish surname, presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish name.
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