When Sarah Ann Tarr was born in 1838, in Devon, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Tarr, was 36 and her mother, Sarah Chaffe, was 33. She married Rowland Muggall Atkinson Sr in June 1859, in Newton Abbot, Devon, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in St Marychurch, Devon, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and Pendleton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. She died in 1917, in Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 79.
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Belle Vue Gaol was a Victorian prison in Gorton, Manchester. The living conditions for the prisoners were horrible. It was intended to be a prison for both males and females and also became a military prison. In 1892, the prison was demolished.
The Lancashire Rifle Volunteers started in the eighteenth century. Those that fought in the militia were selected by ballot. They were formed because of threat due to the Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War.
English (mainly Devon and Somerset): habitational name from Tarr in Hawkridge, or Tarr in Lydeard Saint Lawrence (both in Somerset). The placenames may derive from Old English torr ‘rock, rocky peak’, though this cannot be certain as early forms of the placenames have not been found.
English: metonymic occupational name from Middle English tar(re) ‘tar’ (Old English teoru), for someone who worked with tar, such as a person who tarred ships to keep them watertight.
Possibly also an altered form of German Tharr, unexplained.
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