When Sophia Lander was born on 5 April 1830, in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Lander, was 30 and her mother, Mary Darby, was 26. She married Francis Freeman on 2 October 1848, in Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891. She died in April 1902, at the age of 72.
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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.
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.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic or status name from Middle High German lant, German Land ‘land, territory’ (see Land 1). Compare Landmann .
German: topographic name from Middle High German lander ‘picket fence’.
German: from the personal name Lanther, see Landherr 1.
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