Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Mills was born on 31 May 1823, in Crewkerne, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Mills Senior, was 36 and his mother, Mary Gosney, was 38. He died in 1889, at the age of 66, and was buried in Canada.
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- Samuel Mills in household of William Mills, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Samuel Mills, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Samuel Mills, "England, Somerset, Church Records, 1501-1999"
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1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor
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.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Mill 1, with excrescent -s added in post-medieval times. Compare Mullins , from a French equivalent of this name, and see also Milnes .
English: either a variant of Miles , a variant of Mill 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or Myhill , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: this is usually the English name, especially in Ulster, but elsewhere in Ireland it was also adopted for the Gaelic topographic byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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