When David Bickley was born about 1825, in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Bickley, was 23 and his mother, Mary Ann Green, was 21. He married Abigail Duncomb on 29 August 1852, in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Willenhall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom for about 30 years.
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Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
English: habitational name from any of the places called Bickley, in Worcestershire, Cheshire, North Yorkshire, and Kent, or Bickleigh in Devon, all of which are possibly named with an Old English personal name Bicca + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The first element could alternatively be an Old English word, bic ‘pointed ridge’.
Americanized form of German Bickler or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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