Elizabeth Ridgeway

1833–6 December 1868 (Age 35)
Little Leigh, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom

The Life of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Ridgeway was born in 1833, in Little Leigh, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Ridgway, was 28 and her mother, Esther Berry, was 27. She married John Tinsley on 16 November 1857, in St Helens, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Runcorn, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Blackburn, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1871. She died on 6 December 1868, in Leyland, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 35.

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Family Time Line

John Tinsley
1838–1915
Elizabeth Ridgeway
1833–1868
Marriage: 16 November 1857
Jane Tinsley
1857–1899
Mary Hannah Tinsley
1859–1932
Elizabeth Ellen Tinsley
1861–1869
Edwin Tinsley
1863–1931
Cornelius Tinsley
1864–1943
John Thomas Tinsley
1865–1865
Richard Hasket Tinsley
1868–1937
Joseph Tinsley
1876–1940

Spouse and Children

MARRIAGE
16 November 1857
St Helens, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
children

(8)

+3 More Children

Parents and Siblings

siblings

(3)

    Hannah Speakman Ridgeway

    Female1829–Female

    Edwin Ridgeway

    Male1831–Male

    Elizabeth Ridgeway

    Female1833–1868Female

World Events (6)

1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor

Age 0

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.
1842 · Mines and Collieries Act of 1842

Age 9

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

Age 10

Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English riggewey, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by such a route or a habitational name from any of various places so named, for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, and Staffordshire.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

Possible Related Names

Sources (3)

  • Elizabeth Tinsley in household of John Tinsley, "England and Wales Census, 1871"
  • Elizabeth Tinsley in household of John Tinsley, "England and Wales Census, 1861"
  • Unknown in entry for Edwin Tinsley, "Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937"

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