When Isabella Langford was born on 15 May 1827, in Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Weldon Langford, was 38 and her mother, Maria Jones, was 29. She married Thomas Bowen in 1850, in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Llangyfelach, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1891 and Clase, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1901. She died in 1902, in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, at the age of 75.
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Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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.
Like the iron and copper mines, the coal fields in South Wales were very important to the industrial revolution. Many of those that worked in the coal mines were part of the Merthyr uprising.
English: habitational name from any of several places called with Old English lang ‘long’ + ford ‘ford’, such as Langford (Bedfordshire, Nottinghamshire, Essex, Norfolk).
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