Elizabeth Ridgeway

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

The Life Summary 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 3 sons and 2 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
Mary Hannah Tinsley
1859–1932
Elizabeth Ellen Tinsley
1861–1869
Edwin Tinsley
1863–1931
John Thomas Tinsley
1865–1865
Richard Hasket Tinsley
1868–1937

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    16 November 1857St Helens, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
    • Children

    (5)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (3)

    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 rig(g)ewei ‘ridgeway’ (Old English hrycgweg). The surname may be topographic, signifying someone who lived beside a ridgeway, or habitational, signifying someone who lived at one of a number of places so named, for example Ridgeway (Cheshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, Somerset, Staffordshire) and Rudgeway (Gloucestershire).

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

    Possible Related Names

    Ridgway

    Sources (20)

    • Elizabeth in entry for Cornelius Tinsley, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
    • 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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