Brief Life History of Lena Grace
When Lena Grace Greenland was born on 6 May 1875, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Henry Greenland, was 38 and her mother, Anna Maria Rawlings, was 31. She married Hubert Hobbs in 1938, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She died on 10 June 1954, in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 79.
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Sources (7)
- Lena G Greenland in household of Henry Greenland, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Lena Grace Greenland, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Greenland, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
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1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
1900 · Strike at Penrhyn Slate Quarry
The strike at Penrhyn Slate Quarry was the longest in Wales history, lasting from November 22, 1900 to 1903. When workers in the quarry were informed that union dues were no longer being collected, they started protesting.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) green meadow’, Middle English grene, grein + land, or a habitational name from a minor place so named.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Groenland and possibly also of German Grönland: habitational name from any of several farmsteads or hamlets so named, with the same meaning as 1 above, from Dutch groen, Low German grön ‘green’ + land ‘land’. The surname Grönland is very rare in Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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