When Elizabeth Shrimpton was born in 1817, in Redditch, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Shrimpton, was 26 and her mother, Mary Sims, was 27. She married Joseph HILL on 6 June 1846, in Redditch, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Tardebigge, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1841.
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Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
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.
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
English: habitational name from Sherington in Buckinghamshire, which is recorded as Shryngton in 1367. The placename derives from the Old English personal name Scīra (from scīr ‘bright’) + the Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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