Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Hughes Parker was born in 1835, in Little Gonerby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Hughes, was 25 and her mother, Frances Bellamy, was 31. She married George Parker on 28 May 1855, in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Enfield, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Horwich, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. She died in March 1917, in Bolton, Lancashire, England, at the age of 82.
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- Sarah Parker, "England and Wales Census, 1871"
- Sarah Hughes, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Marriage index: Sarah Hughes & George Parker (1855), "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
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1842 · Mines and Collieries Act of 1842
The Parliment of the United Kingdom passed the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842, mostly commonly known as the Mines Act of 1842. This act made it so that nobody under the age of ten could work in the mines and also females in general could not be employed.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1859 · Lancashire Rifle Volunteers
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.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: variant of Hugh with genitival or excrescent -s.
Irish and Scottish: adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic surnames based on the personal name Aodh ‘fire’, for example Ó hAodha, Mac Aodha; see McCoy and compare McHugh .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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