When Ann Taylor was born in October 1818, in Arlington, Devon, England, her father, James Taylor, was 39 and her mother, Elizabeth Bray, was 38. She married William Radford on 28 December 1839, in Arlington, Devon, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Devon, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Bideford, Devon, England in 1851. She died in October 1901, in Bideford, Devon, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 83.
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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.
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English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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