When Hannah Amos was born in 1827, in Halkyn, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, John Amos, was 36 and her mother, Margaret Edwards, was 30. She married Joseph Tonge on 20 October 1877, in Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Bowdon, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1877 and Ashton upon Mersey, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She died in 1892, in Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 65.
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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 and Scottish: variant of Amis , assimilated in spelling to the Biblical name (see 2 below). It occurs chiefly in southeastern England.
Jewish, German, English, Scottish, and Welsh: from the Hebrew personal name Amos, of uncertain origin, in some traditions connected with the Hebrew verb amos ‘to carry’, and assigned the meaning ‘borne by God’. This was the name of a Biblical prophet of the 8th century BC , whose oracles are recorded in the Book of Amos. This was one of the Biblical names taken up by Puritans and Nonconformists in the 16th–17th centuries, too late to have had much influence on surname formationm in Britain, except in Wales.
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