When Jane Duncombe was born in 1862, in Willenhall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Duncomb, was 42 and her mother, Ann Fletcher, was 41. She married Alfred Simkins on 8 December 1884, in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
English: habitational name from any of several places so named, such as Duncombe in Donnington (Gloucestershire), Duncombe in Bilsborrow (Lancashire), Duncombe in Bishops Waltham (Hampshire), or Duncombe in Sherford (Devon), probably from Old English dūn ‘hill’ + Old English cumb ‘valley’.
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