When Jessie Wolstenholme was born in 1859, in Chorlton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Wholstenholme, was 25 and her mother, Fanny Turner, was 25. She died in June 1861, in her hometown, at the age of 2.
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The Lancashire Rifle Volunteers started in the eighteenth century. Those that fought in the militia were selected by ballot. They were formed because of threat due to the Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War.
English: habitational name from Wolstenholme, a place in Lancashire named from the Old English personal name Wulfstān (see Woolston 1) + Old Norse holmr ‘island, dry land in a fen’.
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