William R Whitehead was born about 7 April 1828, in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. He married Mary Ann Holmes in 1867, in Owston Ferry, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Moss Side in Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1871 and Roundhay, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891.
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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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: nickname from Middle English whit ‘white’ + hed ‘head’ (Old English hwīt + hēafod), denoting a person with white or fair hair. Occasionally perhaps from Middle English whīt ‘white’ + hod ‘hood’ (Old English hwīt + hōd).
Irish: adopted by erroneous translation of Ó Ceanndubháin ‘descendant of the little black-headed one’ (see Canavan ), as if from Gaelic ceann ‘head’ + bán ‘white’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Weisshaupt (see Weishaupt ) or Weisskopf (see Weiskopf ).
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