Mary Jane Hayes was born on 1 January 1879, in Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. She married Benjamin Ascroft in 1897, in Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. In 1939, at the age of 60, her occupation is listed as office cleaner in Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. She died in 1952, in Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 73.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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The East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a group of volunteers in a unit of Britian's Royal Engineers. They were started in Manchester in 1901. They fought on the western front during WWI and were part of the Dunkirk Evacuation during WWII.
Irish (Cork): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAodha ‘descendant of Aodh’, a personal name meaning ‘fire’. Compare McCoy . In some cases especially in County Wexford, the surname is of English origin (see below), having been taken to Ireland by the Normans.
English: variant of Hay , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: topographic name from the plural form of Middle English hay(e), heye, heghe ‘enclosure’ (see Hay ), sometimes used as a collective noun for a farm, especially in Devon, where it is a frequent minor placename. Compare Hain .
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